CVE-2026-53433

Denial of Service in fzf

Published Jun 30, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 5.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Fzf
Fzf fzf
Vendors & Products Fzf
Fzf fzf
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-1046
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Denial of Service in fzf
Weaknesses CWE-407
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.7, 'vector': '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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
CERT-PL
Published
Updated
Jun 30, 2026, 1:32 PM
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026, 11:41 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jun 30, 2026, 1:19 PM
Modified
Jul 2, 2026, 7:01 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 30, 2026, 12:01 PM