CVE-2026-86000

Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.9, the selector parser in src/soupsieve/css_parser.py defines IDENTIFIER with adjacent quantified groups over overlapping character classes, and VALUE embeds IDENTIFIER for attribute selectors. When an attacker-controlled selector contains a long identifier or unquoted attribute-value run followed by input that makes the overall match fail, the regular expression engine explores quadratically many splits between the overlapping groups. User-controlled selectors can reach this path through soupsieve.compile(), soupsieve.select(), or BeautifulSoup.select(), while applications using only hard-coded selectors are unaffected. The resulting CPU consumption can hold the Python GIL, exhaust application workers, and stall a service; successful plain identifier matches are linear, and the issue does not cause memory corruption or code execution. The issue is fixed in version 2.9.
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17 Sep 2026, 16:18

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Published : 2026-09-17 16:18

Updated : 2026-09-17 16:18


NVD link : CVE-2026-86000

Mitre link : CVE-2026-86000

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-86000


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CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity