CVE-2025-3864 (GCVE-0-2025-3864)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-28 11:19 – Updated: 2025-05-28 13:17 X_Open Source
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Title
Connection pool exhaustion in hackney
Summary
Hackney fails to properly release HTTP connections to the pool after handling 307 Temporary Redirect responses. Remote attackers can exploit this to exhaust connection pools, causing denial of service in applications using the library. Fix for this issue has been included in 1.24.0 release.
Severity ?
2.3 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
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Vendor Product Version
hackney hackney Affected: 0 , < 1.24.0 (semver)
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Credits
Michał Majchrowicz, Marcin Wyczechowski, and Paweł Zdunek — members of the AFINE Team
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