CVE-2026-47067CWE-770

Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney

High · published May 25, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00700 · 52.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-25T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAY 14:00Z
    Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney
    cvelistv5