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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-97200 EEF-CVE-2026-97200EUVD-2026-109837GHSA-wpmp-4grc-56ph

Unbounded response body buffering and decompression in hackney

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
benoitc hackney 2.0.0-beta.1 – < 4.9.0 4.9.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex hackney >= 2.0.0-beta.1, < 4.9.0 4.9.0 EEF-CVE-2026-97200

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