CVE-2026-47071
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The SOCKS5 transport in src/hackney_socks5.erl correctly applies the caller-supplied timeout to the SOCKS5 negotiation phase, but then upgrades the connection to TLS using the two-argument form ssl:connect/2, which defaults to an infinite timeout. The Timeout value is in scope at the call site but is not forwarded. A hostile SOCKS5 proxy that completes the SOCKS5 handshake normally and then goes silent (or sends a partial TLS ServerHello and stalls) will cause the connecting process to block indefinitely, regardless of the connect_timeout or recv_timeout options supplied by the caller.
This issue affects hackney: from 0.10.0 before 4.0.1.
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References
4- github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/5ccdab725c561a6f03d05a51f2d0664f98236daenvdPatch
- github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-gp9c-pm5m-5cxrnvdExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47071.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryPatch
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47071nvdThird Party AdvisoryPatch
News mentions
1- Hackney HTTP Client: Ten CVEs Disclosed in a Single Batch — CRLF Injection, Resource Exhaustion, and MoreVypr Intelligence · May 25, 2026