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.
Published: 2026-11-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6655-6qjp-jx7x Soup Sieve: Exponential ReDoS in selector compilation via \9-run in CSS_ESCAPES/IDENTIFIER
History

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:30:00 +0000

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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:15:00 +0000

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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.
Title Soup Sieve: Exponential ReDoS in selector compilation via \9-run in CSS_ESCAPES/IDENTIFIER
Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Facelessuser Soupsieve
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-13T18:54:06.385Z

Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:07:44.957Z

Link: CVE-2026-126191

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-12T17:17:32.627

Modified: 2026-11-13T19:19:23.660

Link: CVE-2026-126191

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Updated: 2026-11-13T15:30:03Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-1333

    Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity