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EEF-CVE-2026-47069 CVE-2026-47069 GHSA-mp55-p8c9-rfw2

CRLF injection in cookie domain/path options in hackney

Medium Hex
Severity
0.0 / 10
Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.43%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 36.86% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')
Fix
4.0.1
Upgrade hackney to this version or later

Description

Summary

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Response Splitting. The hackney_cookie:setcookie/3 function in src/hackney_cookie.erl validates the Name and Value arguments against CRLF and control characters, but concatenates the domain and path options verbatim into the output iolist with no equivalent check. An attacker who controls either option — for example by supplying a Host header value forwarded as the cookie domain, or a request path forwarded as the cookie path — can inject a literal CRLF sequence and arbitrary additional Set-Cookie headers into the HTTP response.

This issue affects hackney: from 0.9.0 before 4.0.1.

Affected versions

Hex

PackageVulnerableFixed in
hackney
>= 0.9.0, < 4.0.1
4.0.1

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

hackney Hex → 4.0.1

mix
{:hackney, "~> 4.0.1"} # then: mix deps.update hackney

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
None
Integrity (vulnerable system)
Low
Availability (vulnerable system)
None
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
Low
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Weakness

CWE-93: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

The product uses CRLF (carriage return line feeds) as a special element, e.g. to separate lines or records, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes CRLF sequences from inputs.

How to prevent it
  • Implementation: Avoid using CRLF as a special sequence.
  • Implementation: Appropriately filter or quote CRLF sequences in user-controlled input.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
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Credits: Benoit Chesneau, Jonatan Männchen / EEF, Peter Ullrich

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