Medium severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-113440
HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 redirects resend basic_auth and cookie to a different scheme or port in hackney
New
6.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in hackney in benoitc hackney allows a redirecting server to obtain the basic_auth and cookie credentials of a request via a same-host redirect to another scheme or port. With follow_redirect enabled, hackney:follow_redirect/10 in src/hackney.erl reissues the request to the Location target after hackney:maybe_strip_auth_on_redirect/3, which compared only the hostname of the current and the redirect URL. A redirect from https to http on the same host resent the Authorization and Cookie headers in cleartext, where an on-path attacker can read them, and a redirect to another port on the same host handed them to a different service. location_trusted forwards credentials to any target by design and is unchanged.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% 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; 8f944559bdb83da60b5c06f6cf6d842591278364 before 6548384b22ea196023a1963e2967d5715b6d9564 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113440
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-113440
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-113440.html
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/6548384b22ea196023a1963e2967d5715b6d9564
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/8f944559bdb83da60b5c06f6cf6d842591278364
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/979
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-113440
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