Description
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.
Problem types
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Product status
0.10.0 (semver) before 4.0.1
34cdbd1d20a282aacc286a89327465a3925b4c5d (git) before 5ccdab725c561a6f03d05a51f2d0664f98236dae
Credits
Peter Ullrich
Benoit Chesneau
Jonatan Männchen / EEF
References
github.com/...ackney/security/advisories/GHSA-gp9c-pm5m-5cxr
github.com/...ackney/security/advisories/GHSA-gp9c-pm5m-5cxr
cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47071.html
osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47071
github.com/...ommit/5ccdab725c561a6f03d05a51f2d0664f98236dae