Detections
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CVE-2026-126191
high
Description
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 3.0, the CSS_ESCAPES and IDENTIFIER regular-expression subpatterns can backtrack exponentially on runs of ambiguous digit escapes in an attribute-name or tag position of an otherwise valid selector. The failure occurs during selector compilation through soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup select() before SELECTOR_LIMIT is applied, so an application that accepts untrusted selector strings can have a worker stalled by a short input. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.
References
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-6655-6qjp-jx7x
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/3.0
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/pull/300
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/dbfa2854ff31a863326bd6660d4e55c6f068db9e