EEF-CVE-2026-47072 CVE-2026-47072 GHSA-f9vr-g2g2-x9fg
CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney
- Severity
- 0.0 / 10
- High · CVSS 4.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.54%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 45.56% 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 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.
Affected versions
Hex
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| hackney | >= 2.0.0, < 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:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- 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)
- High
- Availability (subsequent systems)
- None
CVSS 3.1 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- 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
Advisories
Fixes and patches
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| EEF-CVE-2026-97200 Unbounded response body buffering and decompression in hackney | Not rated yet | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-115693 Custom cacerts or cacertfile do not restrict trust to the pinned CA in hackney | Not rated yet | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-113440 HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 redirects resend basic_auth and cookie to a different scheme or port in hackney | Not rated yet | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-115700 SSRF allowlist bypass via percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 or trailing-dot IP literal in hackney | Not rated yet | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-112880 CRLF injection in Proxy-Authorization header built from proxy_auth_fun in hackney | Not rated yet | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-47073 Unbounded memory consumption in WebSocket client in hackney | High | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-47067 Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney | High | Also affects hackney |
| EEF-CVE-2026-47076 SSRF allowlist bypass via percent-encoded host in hackney | Medium | Also affects hackney |
Credits: Benoit Chesneau, Jonatan Männchen / EEF, Peter Ullrich
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