GHSA-m347-hm9w-wwv9Medium

Insufficiently Protected Credentials vulnerability in hackney in benoitc hackney allows a...

Published
October 26, 2026
Last Modified
October 26, 2026

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📋 Description

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.

This issue affects hackney: from 2.0.0 before 4.9.0.

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