{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2026-113440", "assignerOrgId": "6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "EEF", "dateReserved": "2026-10-26T10:00:02.149Z", "datePublished": "2026-10-26T13:49:17.377Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-26T13:49:17.377Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"collectionURL": "https://repo.hex.pm", "cpes": ["cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"], "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "modules": ["hackney"], "packageName": "hackney", "packageURL": "pkg:hex/hackney", "product": "hackney", "programFiles": ["src/hackney.erl"], "programRoutines": [{"name": "hackney:request/5"}, {"name": "hackney:follow_redirect/10"}, {"name": "hackney:maybe_strip_auth_on_redirect/3"}], "repo": "https://github.com/benoitc/hackney", "vendor": "benoitc", "versions": [{"lessThan": "4.9.0", "status": "affected", "version": "2.0.0", "versionType": "semver"}]}, {"collectionURL": "https://github.com", "cpes": ["cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"], "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "modules": ["hackney"], "packageName": "benoitc/hackney", "packageURL": "pkg:github/benoitc/hackney", "product": "hackney", "programFiles": ["src/hackney.erl"], "programRoutines": [{"name": "hackney:request/5"}, {"name": "hackney:follow_redirect/10"}, {"name": "hackney:maybe_strip_auth_on_redirect/3"}], "repo": "https://github.com/benoitc/hackney", "vendor": "benoitc", "versions": [{"lessThan": "6548384b22ea196023a1963e2967d5715b6d9564", "status": "affected", "version": "8f944559bdb83da60b5c06f6cf6d842591278364", "versionType": "git"}]}], "configurations": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>The request is made with <code>follow_redirect</code> enabled and the <code>basic_auth</code> or <code>cookie</code> option set, over HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2, without <code>location_trusted</code>. Credentials passed as explicit request headers are not forwarded on redirects and are not affected.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "The request is made with `follow_redirect` enabled and the `basic_auth` or `cookie` option set, over HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2, without `location_trusted`. Credentials passed as explicit request headers are not forwarded on redirects and are not affected."}], "value": "The request is made with follow_redirect enabled and the basic_auth or cookie option set, over HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2, without location_trusted. Credentials passed as explicit request headers are not forwarded on redirects and are not affected."}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionEndExcluding": "4.9.0", "versionStartIncluding": "2.0.0", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}], "operator": "AND"}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Martin Karrer"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Martin Karrer"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Benoit Chesneau"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "coordinator", "value": "Jonatan M\u00e4nnchen / EEF"}], "dateAssigned": "2026-10-26T10:04:03.000Z", "datePublic": "2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in <code>hackney</code> in benoitc hackney allows a redirecting server to obtain the <code>basic_auth</code> and <code>cookie</code> credentials of a request via a same-host redirect to another scheme or port. 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A redirect from `https` to `http` on the same host resent the `Authorization` and `Cookie` headers in cleartext, where an on-path attacker can read them, and a redirect to another port on the same host handed them to a different service. `location_trusted` forwards credentials to any target by design and is unchanged.\n\nThis issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0."}], "value": "Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in hackney in benoitc hackney allows a redirecting server to obtain the basic_auth and cookie credentials of a request via a same-host redirect to another scheme or port. With follow_redirect enabled, hackney:follow_redirect/10 in src/hackney.erl reissues the request to the Location target after hackney:maybe_strip_auth_on_redirect/3, which compared only the hostname of the current and the redirect URL. A redirect from https to http on the same host resent the Authorization and Cookie headers in cleartext, where an on-path attacker can read them, and a redirect to another port on the same host handed them to a different service. location_trusted forwards credentials to any target by design and is unchanged.\n\nThis issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0."}], "impacts": [{"capecId": "CAPEC-102", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>A server that answers a credentialed request with a same-host redirect to plain HTTP exposes the client's <code>Authorization</code> and <code>Cookie</code> headers to anyone on the network path, and a redirect to another port delivers them to whatever service listens there. The captured values can be replayed against the original origin.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "A server that answers a credentialed request with a same-host redirect to plain HTTP exposes the client's `Authorization` and `Cookie` headers to anyone on the network path, and a redirect to another port delivers them to whatever service listens there. The captured values can be replayed against the original origin."}], "value": "A server that answers a credentialed request with a same-host redirect to plain HTTP exposes the client's Authorization and Cookie headers to anyone on the network path, and a redirect to another port delivers them to whatever service listens there. 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