CVE-2026-49476
Published:July 14, 2026
Updated:July 21, 2026
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 allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists, allowing an attacker who can supply a crafted selector string to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup .select() / .select_one() to allocate hundreds of megabytes of heap memory from a relatively small input and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.4.
Affected Packages
soupsieve (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=1.6.2 <2.8.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.8.4soupsieve (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=1.6.2 <2.8.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.8.4soupsieve (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.4 <2.8.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.8.4soupsieve (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.4 <2.8.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.8.4Related Resources (7)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
EPSS
Base Score:
0.60