Bug 2494941 - CVE-2026-53433 fzf: fzf: Denial of Service via inefficient HTTP body processing [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-53433 fzf: fzf: Denial of Service via inefficient HTTP body processi...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fzf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Elliott Sales de Andrade
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["09127cce-f5b5-441a-b777-1...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-53433
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Reported: 2026-06-30 14:20 UTC by Jon Weiser
Modified: 2026-06-30 14:20 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Weiser 2026-06-30 14:20:13 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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.


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