CVE-2026-47072CWE-93

CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney

Medium · published May 25, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request/Response Splitting. The WebSocket upgrade code in src/hackney_ws.erl copies the host, path, headers (ExtraHeaders), and protocols options from the caller-supplied opts map into the internal #ws_data{} record in init/1 and then splices them verbatim into the raw HTTP/1.1 upgrade request by binary concatenation in do_handshake/1. No CRLF or NUL stripping is performed at any of these four injection sites. An attacker who controls any of these options — for example by forwarding URL components or header values from untrusted input into hackney_ws:start_link/1 — can inject arbitrary HTTP headers into the outbound WebSocket upgrade request, leading to header injection, credential spoofing toward the upstream server, log and cache poisoning, or request smuggling via intermediary proxies.

This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
EPSS
0.00517 · 43.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-93 · Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Published
2026-05-25T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAY 14:00Z
    CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney
    cvelistv5