CVE-2026-47077
HIGH WAF: MediumAllocation 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.
WAF Coverage Analysis
OWASP: A05:2021 Security Misconfiguration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| benoitc | hackney | 2.0.0 - 4.0.1 |
References
- cna.erlef.org (Third Party Advisory, Patch)
- github.com (Patch)
- github.com (Exploit, Vendor Advisory, Patch)
- osv.dev (Third Party Advisory, Patch)