HIGH 8.2 NVD
CVE-2026-97200
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in hackney_conn in benoitc hackney allows a malicious HTTP server to exhaust client memory vi
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in hackney_conn in benoitc hackney allows a malicious HTTP server to exhaust client memory via an oversized or highly compressed response body. hackney:request/5 and hackney:body/1 return the whole response body, and nothing bounds how much the connection process buffers. Any server the client requests can trigger it.
hackney_conn:read_full_body/2 and the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 accumulators append every chunk until the body ends. With {auto_decompress, true} the buffered body is then inflated in one step with zlib:gunzip/1 or zlib:inflate/2, which return the whole output at once.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0-beta.1 before 4.9.0.
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-97200.html
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/493e8bf83a391548e5101792276ab3fc428fa76c
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/dc41b79339ca0c41e16d3f2dd17172bc2de855d6
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/980
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.2 was published on 2026-10-26 via NVD.
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