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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-07T19:46:08.816Z
Reserved: 2026-04-06T21:29:17.350Z
Link: CVE-2026-39376
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-07T20:16:32.450
Modified: 2026-04-07T20:16:32.450
Link: CVE-2026-39376
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