Low severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-112880
CRLF injection in Proxy-Authorization header built from proxy_auth_fun in hackney
New
2.1
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting') vulnerability in hackney_http_connect in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request Splitting via the value a proxy_auth_fun callback returns. After a 407 response from an HTTP CONNECT proxy, hackney_http_connect:handle_proxy_auth/11 calls the caller's proxy_auth_fun with the status code and the response headers and writes the returned binary into the Proxy-Authorization line of the CONNECT retry without checking it. A CR, LF or NUL byte in that value adds header lines to the request sent to the proxy.
The value is attacker-influenced when the callback derives it from untrusted data, for example from the proxy's challenge headers. Other caller-supplied values on the CONNECT path, such as the target host and the request headers, were already checked for control bytes.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 8% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HA
hackney · benoitc
2.0.0 before 4.9.0; 5df5a74a2817d5b12880d217db33253ff1fae1b5 before 5ee7d7d19eba27e774667d472feb1e93a08af7f9 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112880
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-112880
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-112880.html
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/5df5a74a2817d5b12880d217db33253ff1fae1b5
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/5ee7d7d19eba27e774667d472feb1e93a08af7f9
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/989
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-112880
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