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HIGHCVE-2026-47067Published Modified CNA EEF

CVE-2026-47067: Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e
Affected Products
2

Fix available

31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e4.0.1
Patch commits
Affected packages
  • benoitc / hackney
    < 4.0.1 (from 2.0.0)
  • benoitc / hackney
    < 31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e (from d9713695c0d99855d12c73fd8a0b4be0543950c4)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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