Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
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Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1. | |
| Title | Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney | |
| First Time appeared |
Benoitc
Benoitc hackney |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Benoitc
Benoitc hackney |
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| Metrics |
cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-25T14:00:48.507Z
Reserved: 2026-05-18T17:28:08.321Z
Link: CVE-2026-47067
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