CVE-2026-39376

HIGH

FastFeedParser <0.5.10 Meta-Refresh Redirects - Denial of Service

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2026-39376. PoCs published by redyank.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2026-39376, an infinite redirect loop DoS vulnerability in the `fastfeedparser` library. The vulnerability arises from unbounded recursion in the `parse()` function when processing HTML meta-refresh tags, leading to stack exhaustion and potential SSRF chaining.

Description

FastFeedParser is a high performance RSS, Atom and RDF parser. Prior to 0.5.10, when parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL — with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.10.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by redyank · poc
https://github.com/redyank/CVE-2026-39376

This repository provides a detailed technical analysis of CVE-2026-39376, an infinite redirect loop DoS vulnerability in the `fastfeedparser` library. The vulnerability arises from unbounded recursion in the `parse()` function when processing HTML meta-refresh tags, leading to stack exhaustion and potential SSRF chaining.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: fastfeedparser (version not specified)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: User-supplied feed URL input to an application using `fastfeedparser.parse()`
devstral-2 · analyzed Apr 10, 2026 Full analysis →

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (3)
kagi/fastfeedparser < 0.5.10
kagisearch/fastfeedparser < 0.5.10
pypi/fastfeedparser 0 - 0.5.10PyPI
Published Apr 07, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 08, 2026