CVE-2026-53433 PUBLISHED

Denial of Service in fzf

Assigner: CERT-PL
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 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
CVSS Score: 5.7

Product Status

Vendor fzf
Product fzf
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.73.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) finder
  • Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE