REDHAT-BUG-2500752: High severity pypi/soupsieve vulnerability

Published Jul 14, 2026
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Updated

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/cssparser.py, allowing an attacker who can supply untrusted CSS selector strings to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup .select() / .selectone() to cause CPU exhaustion and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.4.

Affected Software

1 affected component
pypi/soupsieve<2.8.4

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade soupsieve to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.8.4

Event History

Jul 14, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·10:04 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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