Allocation 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.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
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Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Allocation 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. | |
| Title | Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney | |
| First Time appeared |
Benoitc
Benoitc hackney |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Benoitc
Benoitc hackney |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-25T14:00:42.217Z
Reserved: 2026-05-18T17:28:10.319Z
Link: CVE-2026-47077
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-25T15:45:16Z
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