CVE-2026-85999Medium· 5.3▾ TwilightPoC availableSoup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.9, selector_iter in src/soupsieve/css_parser.py trims the raw selector with RE_WS_END, an end-anchored WSC whitespace-and-comment expression used …
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 29.2 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
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Disclosed via NVD
0.4%
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Last analysed / modified upstream
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.9, selector_iter in src/soupsieve/css_parser.py trims the raw selector with RE_WS_END, an end-anchored WSC whitespace-and-comment expression used with search(), so the regular expression engine retries a greedy scan at every starting offset. An attacker-controlled valid selector containing a long internal whitespace run, or a selector containing a long CSS comment run followed by another token, causes quadratic CPU work before tokenization. User-controlled selectors can reach the path through soupsieve.compile() and BeautifulSoup.select(), while applications using only hard-coded selectors are unaffected. This root cause is separate from the IDENTIFIER and VALUE backtracking vulnerability because the cost occurs in RE_WS_END.search during trimming rather than token matching. The resulting CPU consumption can hold the Python GIL, exhaust workers, and stall a service without causing memory corruption or code execution. The issue is fixed in version 2.9.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
soupsieve < 2.9.0Patched in:
soupsieve 2.9.0Source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j934-xhv5-fg8f
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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