Denial of service via unbounded HTTP/3 buffering
Published May 25, 2026 · Updated May 25, 2026
Resource exhaustion in hackney 2.0.0 through 4.0.0 allows remote attackers controlling an HTTP/3 server to crash the BEAM runtime. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 appends every response chunk to an uncapped binary while each incoming message restarts its inactivity timer. Exposure requires explicit HTTP/3 transport use; the default TCP/TLS transport is unaffected, and sustained chunks can exhaust process or host memory.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in hackney 2.0.0 through 4.0.0 allows remote attackers controlling an HTTP/3 server to crash the BEAM runtime. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 appends every response chunk to an uncapped binary while each incoming message restarts its inactivity timer. Exposure requires explicit HTTP/3 transport use; the default TCP/TLS transport is unaffected, and sustained chunks can exhaust process or host memory.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-47077
- Published
- May 25, 2026
- Updated
- May 25, 2026
- Vendor
- Benoit Chesneau
- Product
- Hackney
- Classifications
- CWE-400, CAPEC-125, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0334af206d5099fdf510ed9eda18e34396f065ad <3d25f9fea26c90609de9d64366fedfe5065413bc
- Affected versionversion=2.0.0 <4.0.1
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