CVE-2026-47071 PUBLISHED

SOCKS5 TLS upgrade ignores caller timeout in hackney

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 18.05.2026 Published: 25.05.2026 Updated: 25.05.2026

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The SOCKS5 transport in src/hackney_socks5.erl correctly applies the caller-supplied timeout to the SOCKS5 negotiation phase, but then upgrades the connection to TLS using the two-argument form ssl:connect/2, which defaults to an infinite timeout. The Timeout value is in scope at the call site but is not forwarded. A hostile SOCKS5 proxy that completes the SOCKS5 handshake normally and then goes silent (or sends a partial TLS ServerHello and stalls) will cause the connecting process to block indefinitely, regardless of the connect_timeout or recv_timeout options supplied by the caller.

This issue affects hackney: from 0.10.0 before 4.0.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor benoitc
Product hackney
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.10.0 to 4.0.1 (excl.)
Vendor benoitc
Product hackney
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 34cdbd1d20a282aacc286a89327465a3925b4c5d to 5ccdab725c561a6f03d05a51f2d0664f98236dae (excl.)

Credits

  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • Benoit Chesneau remediation developer
  • Jonatan Männchen analyst

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation