EEF-CVE-2026-47077
Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney
Details
## Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 accumulates the HTTP/3 response body in memory without any size cap. The after Timeout clause is a per-message inactivity timer that resets on every received chunk, housekeeping message, or settings frame — it is not a wall-clock deadline. A malicious HTTP/3 server that emits one small chunk every Timeout - 1 ms with Fin = false and never sends a final frame keeps the loop alive indefinitely while the accumulation buffer grows linearly without bound, eventually exhausting the BEAM process heap and causing an out-of-memory condition.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
## Configuration
The application must use the HTTP/3 transport by calling hackney_h3 directly or by passing {transport, h3} to hackney:request/5. The default hackney transport (TCP/TLS) is not affected.
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