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Description

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Excessive Allocation.

The Alt-Svc response header parser in src/hackney_altsvc.erl does not guarantee forward progress. When parse_token/2 receives a non-token, non-whitespace, non-comma byte (e.g. !, @, =, ;), it returns the input unchanged. skip_comma/1 also returns the buffer unchanged when the first byte is not a comma. parse_entries/2 then recurses with identical data, creating a tight infinite tail-recursive loop that pins a scheduler at 100% CPU. The calling process never returns.

The entry point parse_and_cache/3 is called synchronously in the connection process on every HTTP response. A single-byte Alt-Svc: ! response header is sufficient to trigger the hang; the header is fully controlled by any HTTP origin the client connects to.

This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0-beta.1 before 4.0.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-130 · Excessive Allocation MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / hackney Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

2.0.0-beta.1 < 4.0.1 affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules hackney_altsvc
source files src/hackney_altsvc.erl
routines hackney_altsvc:parse_entries/2 · hackney_altsvc:parse_entry/1 · hackney_altsvc:parse_protocol/1 · hackney_altsvc:parse_token/2 · hackney_altsvc:skip_comma/1

Affected — GitHub / benoitc/hackney Repository ↗

408e5fe < e548aba affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules hackney_altsvc
source files src/hackney_altsvc.erl
routines hackney_altsvc:parse_entries/2 · hackney_altsvc:parse_entry/1 · hackney_altsvc:parse_protocol/1 · hackney_altsvc:parse_token/2 · hackney_altsvc:skip_comma/1

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder
Benoit Chesneau Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Analyst

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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