CVE-2026-53433
HIGHfzf < 0.73.1 --listen - HTTP Body Processing Denial of Service
Title source: manualDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/06/CVE-2026-53432
Product product
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/commit/7963a2c6586c0b9eaa89b8995de8f0e08cf8a4ce
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0022
EPSS Percentile
11.9%
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
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-407
Status
published
Products (2)
fzf/fzf
< 0.73.1
junegunn/fzf
< 0.73.1
Published
Jun 30, 2026
Tracked Since
Jun 30, 2026