HIGHCVE-2026-47071Published Modified CNA EEF
CVE-2026-47071: SOCKS5 TLS upgrade ignores caller timeout in hackney
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The SOCKS5 transport in src/hackney_socks5.erl correctly applies the caller-supplied timeout to the SOCKS5 negotiation phase, but then upgrades the connection to TLS using the two-argument form ssl:connect/2, which defaults to an infinite timeout. The Timeout value is in scope at the call site but is not forwarded. A hostile SOCKS5 proxy that completes the SOCKS5 handshake normally and then goes silent (or sends a partial TLS ServerHello and stalls) will cause the connecting process to block indefinitely, regardless of the connect_timeout or recv_timeout options supplied by the caller. This issue affects hackney: from 0.10.0 before 4.0.1.
Metrics
- CVSS v4.0
- 8.2
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 4.0.1
- Affected Products
- 2
Affected packages
- benoitc / hackney< 4.0.1 (from 0.10.0)
- benoitc / hackney< 5ccdab725c561a6f03d05a51f2d0664f98236dae (from 34cdbd1d20a282aacc286a89327465a3925b4c5d)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences