ubuntu-cve-2026-49477
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-07-14 21:17
Modified
2026-07-14 21:17
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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          {
            "binary_name": "python-soupsieve",
            "binary_version": "1.9.5+dfsg-1"
          },
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      },
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            }
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      },
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      },
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      },
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          ],
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      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.7-2",
        "2.8.1-1",
        "2.8.3-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-49477",
  "modified": "2026-07-14T21:17:00Z",
  "published": "2026-07-14T21:17:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-49477"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49477"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/eb4397618709186c109400448c6043b728217dc3"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-836r-79rf-4m37"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-49477"
  ]
}



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