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CVE-2026-47072: CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.54% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: benoitc hackney 4.0.1, 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to benoitc hackney 4.0.1, 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request/Response Splitting. The WebSocket upgrade code in src/hackney_ws.erl copies the host, path, headers (ExtraHeaders), and protocols options from the caller-supplied opts map into the internal #ws_data{} record in init/1 and then splices them verbatim into the raw HTTP/1.1 upgrade request by binary concatenation in do_handshake/1. No CRLF or NUL stripping is performed at any of these four injection sites. An attacker who controls any of these options — for example by forwarding URL components or header values from untrusted input into hackney_ws:start_link/1 — can inject arbitrary HTTP headers into the outbound WebSocket upgrade request, leading to header injection, credential spoofing toward the upstream server, log and cache poisoning, or request smuggling via intermediary proxies. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

MediumCVSS 6.9 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
May 25, 2026
Updated
Jul 24, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 45th percentile

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Action score

27

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
27 / 40 · 6.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · EEF
6.9
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
benoitchackney

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • benoitc hackney2.0.0 and later · before 4.0.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (EEF). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • benoitc hackney

    • 2.0.0 and later · before 4.0.1affected · semver
    • 690cecaf236fba49526da404a5bc889a24367a3e and later · before 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1affected · git

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Hexhackneyfrom 2.0.0 · before 4.0.14.0.1

Same product

benoitc: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-115693Custom cacerts or cacertfile do not restrict trust to the pinned CA in hackney
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-47073Unbounded memory consumption in WebSocket client in hackney
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-47067Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney
    34Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-47070May 25, 2026 · HTTP/3 redirect handler leaks Authorization and Cookie headers to cross-origin redirect target in hackney
    24Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-47071May 25, 2026 · SOCKS5 TLS upgrade ignores caller timeout in hackney
    32Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-47075May 25, 2026 · CR/LF injection in query parameter in hackney
    27Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
benoitc hackney4.0.1Vendor (CNA)
benoitc hackney52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1Vendor (CNA)
Hex:hackney4.0.1Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-470750 days apartCR/LF injection in query parameter in hackney
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-470690 days apartCRLF injection in cookie domain/path options in hackney
    8Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-93 · Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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