CVE-2026-47075: benoitc hackney · CRLF Injection
Affects benoitc hackneySource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.8 Medium : upgrade to 4.0.1 when convenient.
Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 41% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 4.0.1, ca73dd0aba0ed557449c18288bf07241671a43c9
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 25 May 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.
What to do
Upgrade hackney to 4.0.1; hackney to ca73dd0aba0ed557449c18288bf07241671a43c9.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
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| benoitchackney | Affected
| Fixed in
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| benoitchackney | Affected
| Fixed in
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Hexhackneypkg:hex/hackneyOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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Hexhackneypkg:hex/hackneyOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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CPE configurations (1)
cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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AI-suggested
If you cannot patch yet, avoid passing untrusted input directly into the URL query component in hackney. Implement input validation or percent-encoding of CR and LF characters before passing URLs to hackney to mitigate injection risks.
Description
Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request Splitting. hackney does not percent-encode carriage return (\r) or line feed (\n) characters in the URL query component before constructing the HTTP/1.1 request target. Characters outside the grammar defined in RFC 3986 Section 3.4 must be percent-encoded, but hackney_url:make_url/3 passes the query binary directly without validation or escaping. An attacker who can control all or part of a URL passed to hackney can inject raw CRLF sequences into the query string, which are then sent as HTTP line breaks in the request target. This enables injection of arbitrary HTTP headers or splitting of the HTTP request. This issue affects hackney: from 0.13.1 before 4.0.1.
References
- github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-j9wq-vxxc-94wf (opens in a new tab)
- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47075.html (opens in a new tab)
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47075 (opens in a new tab)
- github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/ca73dd0aba0ed557449c18288bf07241671a43c9 (opens in a new tab)