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Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4.

CVE-2026-126191

Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 3.0, the CSSESCAPES 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 SELECTORLIMIT 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.

Assessment

CVSS
7.5 (v3.1)
Severity
High
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
12 November 2026
Last updated
12 November 2026
Assigner
GitHub_M

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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