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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-18 | Published 2026-05-25 | Updated 2026-05-27 | Assigner EEF




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

Problem types

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

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2.0.0 (semver) before 4.0.1
affected

Default status
unaffected

690cecaf236fba49526da404a5bc889a24367a3e (git) before 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1
affected

Credits

Peter Ullrich finder

Benoit Chesneau remediation developer

Jonatan Männchen / EEF analyst

References

github.com/...ackney/security/advisories/GHSA-f9vr-g2g2-x9fg exploit

github.com/...ackney/security/advisories/GHSA-f9vr-g2g2-x9fg vendor-advisory related

cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47072.html related

osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47072 related

github.com/...ommit/52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1 patch

cve.org (CVE-2026-47072)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-47072)

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