CVE-2026-53433

HIGH

fzf < 0.73.1 --listen - HTTP Body Processing Denial of Service

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3

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