CVE-2026-115319
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
fzf 0.36.0 through 0.74.5 contains an inefficient algorithmic complexity vulnerability in maskActionContents that allows local attackers to exhaust the --listen HTTP server through quadratic string concatenation. Attackers can repeatedly send POST bodies of about 1 MB to the unauthenticated localhost port, blocking the single-threaded server for about 30 seconds each time.
Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.0
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-22 11:17:50.677000
Last modified
2026-10-29 12:17:10.553000
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"published": "2026-10-22T11:17:50.677",
"lastModified": "2026-10-29T12:17:10.553",
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}
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"source": "[email protected]",
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"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/v0.74.5/src/options.go#L1680-L1736",
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