GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879gMedium
fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation
🔗 CVE IDs covered (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.
🎯 Affected products1
- go/github.com/junegunn/fzf:< 0.73.1
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53433
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/commit/7963a2c6586c0b9eaa89b8995de8f0e08cf8a4ce
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/06/CVE-2026-53432
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/v0.73.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g