Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting hackney package, versions <1.24.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-HEX-HACKNEY-10260412
  • published29 May 2025
  • disclosed28 May 2025
  • creditMichał Majchrowicz, Marcin Wyczechowski, Paweł Zdunek

Introduced: 28 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-3864  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hackney to version 1.24.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime due to improper handling of HTTP connections after receiving 307 Temporary Redirect responses. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exhausting all available connections in the pool.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1