CVE-2026-47077CWE-400

Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney

High · published May 25, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.2
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. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 accumulates the HTTP/3 response body in memory without any size cap. The after Timeout clause is a per-message inactivity timer that resets on every received chunk, housekeeping message, or settings frame — it is not a wall-clock deadline. A malicious HTTP/3 server that emits one small chunk every Timeout - 1 ms with Fin = false and never sends a final frame keeps the loop alive indefinitely while the accumulation buffer grows linearly without bound, eventually exhausting the BEAM process heap and causing an out-of-memory condition.

This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00700 · 52.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-05-25T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAY 14:00Z
    Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney
    cvelistv5