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CVE-2026-49476PYSEC-2026-3071GHSA-2WC2-FM75-P42X

Soup Sieve: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists in soupsieve

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.8.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.8.4, the CSS selector parser in soupsieve allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists, allowing an attacker who can supply a crafted selector string to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup .select() / .select_one() to allocate hundreds of megabytes of heap memory from a relatively small input and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.4.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • facelessuser soupsieve

    fixed in 2.8.4

  • soupsievePyPI

    fixed in 2.8.4

References 3

GitHub · facelessuser/soupsieve