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Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding.
The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-770
·
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-125
·
Flooding
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / hackney Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
≥
2.0.0
<
4.0.1
affected
every other version:
unaffected
default status
unaffected
cpe
cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules
hackney_url
source files
src/hackney_url.erl
routines
hackney_url:parse_url/1
Affected — GitHub / benoitc/hackney Repository ↗
≥
d971369
<
31f6f0e
affected
every other version:
unaffected
default status
unaffected
cpe
cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules
hackney_url
source files
src/hackney_url.erl
routines
hackney_url:parse_url/1
References
github.com/benoitc/hackney ·
GHSA-9653-rcfr-5c62 ↗
vendor-advisory
osv.dev ·
EEF-CVE-2026-47067 ↗
related
Credits
Peter Ullrich
Finder
Benoit Chesneau
Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF
Analyst
CVSS breakdown
HIGH 8.7
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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