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CVE-2026-53433: fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation

June 30, 2026 (updated September 30, 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.

References

  • cert.pl/en/posts/2026/06/CVE-2026-53432
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g
  • github.com/junegunn/fzf
  • github.com/junegunn/fzf/commit/7963a2c6586c0b9eaa89b8995de8f0e08cf8a4ce
  • github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/v0.73.1
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53433

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.73.1

Fixed versions

  • 0.73.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.73.1 or above.

Impact 5.5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Source file

go/github.com/junegunn/fzf/CVE-2026-53433.yml

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