The value is attacker-influenced when the callback derives it from untrusted data, for example from the proxy's challenge headers. Other caller-supplied values on the CONNECT path, such as the target host and the request headers, were already checked for control bytes.
This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0.
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Check the value your proxy_auth_fun is about to return for CR, LF and NUL bytes and return {error, Reason} instead when one is present. The callback runs in the application, so the check can be made there.
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| Description | Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting') vulnerability in hackney_http_connect in benoitc hackney allows HTTP Request Splitting via the value a proxy_auth_fun callback returns. After a 407 response from an HTTP CONNECT proxy, hackney_http_connect:handle_proxy_auth/11 calls the caller's proxy_auth_fun with the status code and the response headers and writes the returned binary into the Proxy-Authorization line of the CONNECT retry without checking it. A CR, LF or NUL byte in that value adds header lines to the request sent to the proxy. The value is attacker-influenced when the callback derives it from untrusted data, for example from the proxy's challenge headers. Other caller-supplied values on the CONNECT path, such as the target host and the request headers, were already checked for control bytes. This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0. | |
| Title | CRLF injection in Proxy-Authorization header built from proxy_auth_fun in hackney | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-113 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Benoitc
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:35:50.632Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T10:15:01.166Z
Link: CVE-2026-112880
Updated: 2026-10-26T15:32:18.053Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-26T14:16:28.440
Modified: 2026-10-26T16:59:16.113
Link: CVE-2026-112880
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-26T16:00:18Z