CVE-2026-47077

Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 25, 2026 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: July 24, 2026 at 10:23 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHackney

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
PoC

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.0.0 ≤ v < 4.0.12.0.0334af206d5099fdf510ed9eda18e34396f65ad
Vendor states this is fixed in 3d25f9fea26c90609de9d64366fedfe5065413bc (fixed)
Affected range stops below 4.0.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (4)

Vendor AdvisoryRelatedExploitPatch
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-jq4m-q6p2-8gwc
RelatedPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47077.html
RelatedPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47077

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-400

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