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Description

Interpretation Conflict vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Server Side Request Forgery.

hackney_url:normalize/2 URL-decodes the host component after the URL has been parsed into a #hackney_url{} record. OTP's uri_string:parse/1 and inet:parse_address/1 do not decode percent-escapes in the host, so a URL such as http://%31%32%37%2E%30%2E%30%2E%31/ is seen by a caller's allowlist validator with host %31%32%37%2E%30%2E%30%2E%31 (not an IP address), which passes the allowlist check. hackney's normalizer then decodes the host to 127.0.0.1 and opens a TCP connection to loopback. Because hackney:request/5 always calls hackney_url:normalize/2 with no opt-out, every request that takes a binary or list URL is affected. The same technique reaches cloud instance metadata services (169.254.169.254), RFC1918 networks, and any admin interface listening on localhost.

This issue affects hackney: from 0.13.0 before 4.0.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-436 · Interpretation Conflict in catalog → MITRE ↗
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-664 · Server Side Request Forgery MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / hackney Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.13.0 < 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:normalize/2

Affected — GitHub / benoitc/hackney Repository ↗

4d72550 < 452620a 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:normalize/2

References

Credits

Ganbagana Finder
Benoit Chesneau Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Analyst

CVSS breakdown

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