junegunn/fzf · Security
fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-53433
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 5.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
fzf is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) due to inefficient HTTP body processing in the --listen mode due to inefficient HTTP body processing using repeated string concatenation, resulting in quadratic time complexity (O(n²)). A crafted POST request with many small segments can trigger excessive CPU usage during request handling.This allows a single malicious request to monopolize the single‑threaded HTTP server, blocking all other clients and resulting in denial of service.
This issue was fixed in version 0.73.1.
CWEs
- CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53433 ↗
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/commit/7963a2c6586c0b9eaa89b8995de8f0e08cf8a4ce ↗
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/06/CVE-2026-53432 ↗
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ↗
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/v0.73.1 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g ↗