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...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fzf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliott Sales de Andrade
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["09127cce-f5b5-441a-b777-1...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2026-53433
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-06-30 14:20 UTC by Jon Weiser
Modified: 2026-08-04 03:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2026-08-04 03:24:06 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

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.

Comment 1 Elliott Sales de Andrade 2026-08-04 03:24:06 UTC
We were on 0.73.1 a month before this was filed.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.