Description
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 4.0, Soup Sieve repeatedly walks the same ancestors while matching descendant combinators, and each additional descendant combinator raises the polynomial degree of the work on deeply nested attacker-influenced HTML or XML. Applications using selectors such as section div div through select(), select_one(), or Beautiful Soup CSS APIs against untrusted documents can have a worker occupied for seconds or minutes, while trusted-only document processing is not affected. Selectors compiled with NOCACHE continue to use the old uncached behavior. This issue is fixed in version 4.0.
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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 4.0, Soup Sieve repeatedly walks the same ancestors while matching descendant combinators, and each additional descendant combinator raises the polynomial degree of the work on deeply nested attacker-influenced HTML or XML. Applications using selectors such as section div div through select(), select_one(), or Beautiful Soup CSS APIs against untrusted documents can have a worker occupied for seconds or minutes, while trusted-only document processing is not affected. Selectors compiled with NOCACHE continue to use the old uncached behavior. This issue is fixed in version 4.0. | |
| Title | Soup Sieve: Polynomial-time denial of service in the descendant combinator | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-12T16:54:14.644Z
Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:07:44.957Z
Link: CVE-2026-126190
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-12T17:17:32.440
Modified: 2026-11-12T19:09:06.967
Link: CVE-2026-126190
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Weaknesses
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CWE-407
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity