CVE-2026-47072 PUBLISHED

CRLF injection in WebSocket upgrade request in hackney

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

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request/Response Splitting. The WebSocket upgrade code in src/hackney_ws.erl copies the host, path, headers (ExtraHeaders), and protocols options from the caller-supplied opts map into the internal #ws_data{} record in init/1 and then splices them verbatim into the raw HTTP/1.1 upgrade request by binary concatenation in do_handshake/1. No CRLF or NUL stripping is performed at any of these four injection sites. An attacker who controls any of these options — for example by forwarding URL components or header values from untrusted input into hackney_ws:start_link/1 — can inject arbitrary HTTP headers into the outbound WebSocket upgrade request, leading to header injection, credential spoofing toward the upstream server, log and cache poisoning, or request smuggling via intermediary proxies.

This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor benoitc
Product hackney
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 4.0.1 (excl.)
Vendor benoitc
Product hackney
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 690cecaf236fba49526da404a5bc889a24367a3e to 52310ca807e7b48441ba0e9129171f535313fdd1 (excl.)

Credits

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-33 HTTP Request Smuggling