High severity · published May 25, 2026
CVE-2026-47067
Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney
7.5
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. The URL parser in src/hackney_url.erl converts every unrecognized URL scheme to a permanent BEAM atom via binary_to_atom/2. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected and the atom table defaults to a hard limit of 1,048,576 entries. An attacker who can supply URLs with attacker-chosen scheme prefixes — directly as request targets, as configured webhook URLs, or via Location headers followed during redirects — can exhaust the atom table and crash the entire BEAM VM with system_limit.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.0.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 55% 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 4.0.1; d9713695c0d99855d12c73fd8a0b4be0543950c4 before 31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47067
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47067
Patch
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47067.html
Patch
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e
Exploit
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-9653-rcfr-5c62
Patch
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47067
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