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 contains a regular expression vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking when processing an attribute selector with an unterminated quoted value in soupsieve/css_parser.py, allowing an attacker who can supply untrusted CSS selector strings to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup .select() / .select_one() to cause CPU exhaustion and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.4.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/eb4397618709186c109400448c6043b728217dc3 | Patch |
| https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4 | Release Notes |
| https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-836r-79rf-4m37 | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-836r-79rf-4m37 | Exploit Vendor Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2026-07-14 21:17
Updated : 2026-07-28 15:48
NVD link : CVE-2026-49477
Mitre link : CVE-2026-49477
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-49477
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Products Affected
facelessuser
- soup_sieve
