# CVE-2026-47067: Atom table exhaustion via unrecognized URL schemes in hackney

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.0.1
- Published: 2026-05-25 · Updated: 2026-05-27

## Affected

- hackney: from 2.0.0, fixed in 4.0.1
- benoitc/hackney: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hackney, benoitc/hackney, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/security/advisories/GHSA-9653-rcfr-5c62
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47067.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47067
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/31f6f0e27e096ad88743dfded4f030a3ee74972e

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