# CVE-2026-49476: Soup Sieve: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists in soupsieve

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3071, GHSA-2WC2-FM75-P42X
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.4
- Published: 2026-07-14 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- facelessuser soupsieve: fixed in 2.8.4
- soupsieve (PyPI): fixed in 2.8.4

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on facelessuser soupsieve, soupsieve, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-2wc2-fm75-p42x
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/28108ab805818c832d9568142a99844fd95a0d39
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4

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