Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting soupsieve package, versions [,2.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

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EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SOUPSIEVE-17911087
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed9 Jul 2026
  • creditmauriceng98

Introduced: 9 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-49476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade soupsieve to version 2.8.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the compile function. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by supplying a large comma-separated selector list, leading to process termination or degraded system performance.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1