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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Disable follow_redirect and handle the Location header in the application, or pass the credentials as explicit Authorization and Cookie request headers instead of the basic_auth and cookie options. hackney:follow_redirect/10 issues the redirected request with an empty header list, so explicit headers reach the first server only.

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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 redirects resend basic_auth and cookie to a different scheme or port in hackney
First Time appeared Benoitc
Benoitc hackney
Weaknesses CWE-522
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:benoitc:hackney:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Benoitc
Benoitc hackney
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-26T13:49:17.377Z

Reserved: 2026-10-26T10:00:02.149Z

Link: CVE-2026-113440

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-26T14:16:28.887

Modified: 2026-10-26T16:59:16.113

Link: CVE-2026-113440

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-26T16:15:14Z

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