eef-cve-2026-115700
CVSS 6.9 osv_hex## Summary Interpretation Conflict vulnerability in `hackney_url` in benoitc hackney allows Server Side Request Forgery via a percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 literal or an IP literal with a trailing dot. A host such as `%5B%3A%3Affff%3A127%2E0%2E0%2E1%5D` (decoding to `[::ffff:127.0.0.1]`) or `127.0.0.1.` is not an IP address to a caller's allowlist built on `uri_string:parse/1` and `inet:parse_address/1`, while hackney connects to the address it denotes. The same applies to a `Location` target when redirects are followed. The IP-literal gate that `hackney_url:normalize/2` applies to a percent-decoded host, added to close the percent-encoded IP bypass of CVE-2026-47076, passes the decoded value to `inet_parse:address/1` as is. The connect path in `hackney_happy:parse_address/1` drops a surrounding bracket pair, and the resolver ignores a trailing dot, so both forms pass the gate and still reach the literal address. Domain names with a trailing dot and unencoded IPv6 literals are not affected. This issue affects hackney: from 4.0.1 before 4.9.0. ## Details **1. The gate.** `hackney_url:normalize/2` in `src/hackney_url.erl` percent-decodes a host that is not already an IP literal and raises `invalid_url_host` when `inet_parse:address/1` accepts the decoded value. This closed the plain percent-encoded IP case. **2. What the connect path accepts.** `hackney_happy:parse_address/1` removes a surrounding `[...]` pair before calling `inet:parse_address/1`, and the resolver treats a trailing dot as the root label. Neither form is accepted by `inet_parse:address/1`, so `[::ffff:127.0.0.1]` and `127.0.0.1.` pass the gate. **3. Result.** A percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 literal such as `%5B%3A%3Affff%3A127%2E0%2E0%2E1%5D`, or an IPv4 literal with a trailing dot, is not an IP address to a caller's check based on `uri_string:parse/1` and `inet:parse_address/1`, but hackney connects to the address it denotes. The same applies to a `Location` target when redirects are followed. The fix strips one bracket pair and one trailing dot in `ip_candidate/1` before the gate. ## Impact An application that checks user-supplied URLs against an IP allowlist before handing them to hackney can be made to request loopback, link-local metadata and private-network addresses that the allowlist rejects when they are written plainly. ## Workarounds Run the allowlist on the host that `hackney_url:normalize/1` returns for the parsed URL, and strip a surrounding bracket pair and a trailing dot from it before the IP check, so the check sees the same address the connect path uses. ## Configurations The application passes URLs that an untrusted party can influence to hackney and relies on its own host allowlist, built on `uri_string:parse/1` or `inet:parse_address/1`, to keep requests away from internal addresses.
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CVSS details not available.
No product information available.
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-115700.html
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/987
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/452620a92ec1da2e6b4862a049a2a4f04b42068f
- https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/f19561a0b422376348c91537e51377ab7325f4ee
- https://hex.pm/packages/hackney
No linked vulnerabilities found.
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"details": "## Summary\n\nInterpretation Conflict vulnerability in `hackney_url` in benoitc hackney allows Server Side Request Forgery via a percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 literal or an IP literal with a trailing dot. A host such as `%5B%3A%3Affff%3A127%2E0%2E0%2E1%5D` (decoding to `[::ffff:127.0.0.1]`) or `127.0.0.1.` is not an IP address to a caller's allowlist built on `uri_string:parse/1` and `inet:parse_address/1`, while hackney connects to the address it denotes. The same applies to a `Location` target when redirects are followed.\n\nThe IP-literal gate that `hackney_url:normalize/2` applies to a percent-decoded host, added to close the percent-encoded IP bypass of CVE-2026-47076, passes the decoded value to `inet_parse:address/1` as is. The connect path in `hackney_happy:parse_address/1` drops a surrounding bracket pair, and the resolver ignores a trailing dot, so both forms pass the gate and still reach the literal address. Domain names with a trailing dot and unencoded IPv6 literals are not affected.\n\nThis issue affects hackney: from 4.0.1 before 4.9.0.\n\n## Details\n\n**1. The gate.** `hackney_url:normalize/2` in `src/hackney_url.erl` percent-decodes a host that is not already an IP literal and raises `invalid_url_host` when `inet_parse:address/1` accepts the decoded value. This closed the plain percent-encoded IP case.\n\n**2. What the connect path accepts.** `hackney_happy:parse_address/1` removes a surrounding `[...]` pair before calling `inet:parse_address/1`, and the resolver treats a trailing dot as the root label. Neither form is accepted by `inet_parse:address/1`, so `[::ffff:127.0.0.1]` and `127.0.0.1.` pass the gate.\n\n**3. Result.** A percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 literal such as `%5B%3A%3Affff%3A127%2E0%2E0%2E1%5D`, or an IPv4 literal with a trailing dot, is not an IP address to a caller's check based on `uri_string:parse/1` and `inet:parse_address/1`, but hackney connects to the address it denotes. The same applies to a `Location` target when redirects are followed. The fix strips one bracket pair and one trailing dot in `ip_candidate/1` before the gate.\n\n## Impact\n\nAn application that checks user-supplied URLs against an IP allowlist before handing them to hackney can be made to request loopback, link-local metadata and private-network addresses that the allowlist rejects when they are written plainly.\n\n## Workarounds\n\nRun the allowlist on the host that `hackney_url:normalize/1` returns for the parsed URL, and strip a surrounding bracket pair and a trailing dot from it before the IP check, so the check sees the same address the connect path uses.\n\n## Configurations\n\nThe application passes URLs that an untrusted party can influence to hackney and relies on its own host allowlist, built on `uri_string:parse/1` or `inet:parse_address/1`, to keep requests away from internal addresses.",
"id": "EEF-CVE-2026-115700",
"modified": "2026-10-26T14:00:04.842678043Z",
"published": "2026-10-26T13:49:02.744Z",
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/4.9.0"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-115700.html"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/pull/987"
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"url": "https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/commit/452620a92ec1da2e6b4862a049a2a4f04b42068f"
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"summary": "SSRF allowlist bypass via percent-encoded bracketed IPv6 or trailing-dot IP literal in hackney"
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