CVE-2026-47077

Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
May 25, 2026
Updated
May 27, 2026
Reserved
May 18, 2026

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
hackneybenoitc
  • 2.0.0 to before 4.0.1Affected
hackneybenoitc
  • 0334af206d5099fdf510ed9eda18e34396f065ad to before 3d25f9fea26c90609de9d64366fedfe5065413bcAffected

References

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