# CVE-2026-53433: Denial of Service in fzf

- Also known as: GO-2026-6620, GHSA-MVMF-94V6-879G
- Severity: CVSS 5.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.73.1
- Published: 2026-06-30 · Updated: 2026-06-30

## Affected

- fzf: fixed in 0.73.1
- github.com/junegunn/fzf (Go): fixed in 0.73.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fzf, github.com/junegunn/fzf, upgrade to a fixed version (0.73.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/06/CVE-2026-53432
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/commit/7963a2c6586c0b9eaa89b8995de8f0e08cf8a4ce

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