CVE-2026-47072

HIGH

CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request/Response Splitting. The WebSocket upgrade code in src/hackney_ws.erl copies the host, path, headers (ExtraHeaders), and protocols options from the caller-supplied opts map into the internal #ws_data{} record in init/1 and then splices them verbatim into the raw HTTP/1.1 upgrade request by binary concatenation in do_handshake/1. No CRLF or NUL stripping is performed at any of these four injection sites. An attacker who controls any of these options — for example by forwarding URL components or header values from untrusted input into hackney_ws:start_link/1 — can inject arbitrary HTTP headers into the outbound WebSocket upgrade request, leading to header injection, credential spoofing toward the upstream server, log and cache poisoning, or request smuggling via intermediary proxies. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 37.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-93
Status published
Products (2)
benoitc/hackney 2.0.0 - 4.0.1 (2 CPE variants)
benoitc/hackney 690cecaf236fba49526da404a5bc889a24367a3e - 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1
Published May 25, 2026
Tracked Since May 25, 2026