CVE-2026-47077

HIGH

Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 accumulates the HTTP/3 response body in memory without any size cap. The after Timeout clause is a per-message inactivity timer that resets on every received chunk, housekeeping message, or settings frame — it is not a wall-clock deadline. A malicious HTTP/3 server that emits one small chunk every Timeout - 1 ms with Fin = false and never sends a final frame keeps the loop alive indefinitely while the accumulation buffer grows linearly without bound, eventually exhausting the BEAM process heap and causing an out-of-memory condition. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0067
EPSS Percentile 47.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
benoitc/hackney 0334af206d5099fdf510ed9eda18e34396f065ad - 3d25f9fea26c90609de9d64366fedfe5065413bc
benoitc/hackney 2.0.0 - 4.0.1 (2 CPE variants)
Published May 25, 2026
Tracked Since May 25, 2026