Vulnerability GHSA-mvmf-94v6-879g
Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 6.0
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
3 months ago
June 30, 2026 at 03:30 PM UTC
fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation
v0.54.0 - v0.73.0
v0.54.0 - v0.73.0
Summary
fzf vulnerable to denial of service through quadratic HTTP request-body accumulation
Details
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.
Impacted packages
Timeline
Published
3 months ago
June 30, 2026 at 03:30 PM UTC
Last Modified
7 hours ago
October 01, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC