CVE-2026-39376
FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain
- Published
- Apr 7, 2026
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 26.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-39376, demonstrating an infinite redirect loop denial-of-service via meta-refresh chains in fastfeedparser, with SSRF chaining potential.
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