# CVE-2026-97200: Unbounded response body buffering and decompression in hackney

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109837, GHSA-WPMP-4GRC-56PH
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.9.0
- Published: 2026-10-26 · Updated: 2026-10-26

## Affected

- hackney: from 2.0.0-beta.1, fixed in 4.9.0
- benoitc/hackney: from dc41b79339ca0c41e16d3f2dd17172bc2de855d6, fixed in 493e8bf83a391548e5101792276ab3fc428fa76c

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hackney, benoitc/hackney, upgrade to a fixed version (4.9.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-97200.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-97200
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/980
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/dc41b79339ca0c41e16d3f2dd17172bc2de855d6
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/493e8bf83a391548e5101792276ab3fc428fa76c

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