CRLF Injection Affecting hackney package, versions >=2.0.0-beta.1 <4.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.48% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-HEX-HACKNEY-16877831
  • published26 May 2026
  • disclosed25 May 2026
  • creditPJUllrich

Introduced: 25 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-47072  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hackney to version 4.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection in the do_handshake/1 WebSocket upgrade request assembly in the WebSocket client code. An attacker can inject extra header lines or rewrite the request line by supplying a path, sub-protocol, or extra header value containing \r, \n, or NUL. This lets a malicious caller smuggle attacker-controlled headers onto the wire during the upgrade request, which can corrupt the handshake and expose downstream services to request manipulation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1