High severity · published Oct 26, 2026
CVE-2026-97200
Unbounded response body buffering and decompression in hackney
New
8.2
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in hackney_conn in benoitc hackney allows a malicious HTTP server to exhaust client memory via an oversized or highly compressed response body. hackney:request/5 and hackney:body/1 return the whole response body, and nothing bounds how much the connection process buffers. Any server the client requests can trigger it.
hackney_conn:read_full_body/2 and the HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 accumulators append every chunk until the body ends. With {auto_decompress, true} the buffered body is then inflated in one step with zlib:gunzip/1 or zlib:inflate/2, which return the whole output at once.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0-beta.1 before 4.9.0.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% 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-beta.1 before 4.9.0; dc41b79339ca0c41e16d3f2dd17172bc2de855d6 before 493e8bf83a391548e5101792276ab3fc428fa76c · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97200
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97200
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-97200.html
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/493e8bf83a391548e5101792276ab3fc428fa76c
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/dc41b79339ca0c41e16d3f2dd17172bc2de855d6
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/980
github.com
https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-97200
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