CVE-2026-47073

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The WebSocket client in src/hackney_ws.erl imposes no upper bound on memory consumption in three code paths. First, read_handshake_response/3 accumulates received bytes into a growing buffer with no size cap; the per-receive timeout resets on every chunk, so a server that streams bytes without ever sending \r\n\r\n causes the buffer to grow until memory is exhausted. Second, parse_payload/9 and parse_active_payload/8 do not validate the declared frame payload length against any limit; because RFC 6455 allows payload lengths up to 2^63-1 bytes, a server that announces a very large frame and dribbles bytes causes the accumulation buffer to grow until OOM. Third, the frag_buffer field in #ws_data{} accumulates continuation frames indefinitely; a server that sends an endless stream of non-final (nofin) fragmented frames without ever sending a final (fin) frame grows frag_buffer without bound. In all three cases the attacker only needs to control the WebSocket server the hackney client connects to, with no authentication or special client configuration required. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

27 May 2026, 13:54

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5
First Time Benoitc
Benoitc hackney
References () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47073.html - () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47073.html - Third Party Advisory, Patch
References () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/ce0109e2970ace6e20ff29bae9d05c3ac22ec6dc - () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/ce0109e2970ace6e20ff29bae9d05c3ac22ec6dc - Patch
References () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-q8jg-fgj4-fphf - () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-q8jg-fgj4-fphf - Exploit, Vendor Advisory, Patch
References () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47073 - () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47073 - Third Party Advisory, Patch

26 May 2026, 17:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-q8jg-fgj4-fphf - () https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-q8jg-fgj4-fphf -

25 May 2026, 15:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-05-25 15:16

Updated : 2026-05-27 13:54


NVD link : CVE-2026-47073

Mitre link : CVE-2026-47073

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-47073


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Products Affected

benoitc

  • hackney
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption