CVE-2026-47077: Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-05-25 · updated 2026-07-24
Weakness: CWE-400

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 products

benoitc hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1 — fixed in 4.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: benoitc hackney 4.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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