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CVE-2026-49476 (GCVE-0-2026-49476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-14 20:53 – Updated: 2026-07-14 20:53

Title

Soup Sieve: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists in soupsieve

Summary

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/securit…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/release…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
facelessuser	soupsieve	Affected: < 2.8.4

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FKIE_CVE-2026-49476

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-14 21:17 - Updated: 2026-07-14 21:17

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/28108ab805818c832d9568142a99844fd95a0d39
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-2wc2-fm75-p42x

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-2WC2-FM75-P42X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-09 13:37 – Updated: 2026-07-09 13:37

Summary

Soup Sieve has Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists

Details

Summary

The CSS selector parser in soupsieve (the CSS selector engine for Beautiful Soup 4) allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists. An attacker who can supply a crafted CSS selector string to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup's .select() / .select_one() can cause the application to allocate hundreds of megabytes of heap memory from a relatively small input, leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service.

To be completely transparent, AI tools helped surface this issue. However, it was independently reproduced and carefully validated. Researchers follow responsible disclosure practices and originally shared this report privately.

A 500 KB selector string triggers allocation of approximately 244 MB of heap memory - a 488x— amplification ratio**.

Details

Affected code: soupsieve/css_parser.py, lines ~204, 925, 1106

The soupsieve CSS parser splits comma-separated selector lists and creates one CSSSelector object per list item. Each CSSSelector object contains parsed selector data structures including SelectorList, Selector, and associated tag/attribute/pseudo-class metadata.

When a selector string such as a,a,a,... (with 250,000 comma-separated items) is passed to sv.compile(), the parser:

Tokenises the entire string and identifies each comma-delimited segment (line ~1106)
Parses each segment into a full Selector object with all associated metadata (line ~925)
Stores all parsed selectors in a SelectorList (line ~204)

Root cause: No limit is enforced on the number of selectors in a comma-separated list. The parser will attempt to parse and store an arbitrary number of selectors, with each selector object consuming approximately 976 bytes of heap memory. The total allocation scales linearly with the number of list items, but the amplification ratio (output memory / input bytes) is extremely high because each single-character selector like a expands into a complex object graph.

Attack surface: Any application that passes user-supplied CSS selectors to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup's .select() / .select_one().

Proof of Concept

import tracemalloc
import soupsieve as sv

tracemalloc.start()

# Build a 500 KB selector string: "a,a,a,...,a" (250,000 items)
count = 250_000
selector = ",".join("a" for _ in range(count))
print(f"Selector string size: {len(selector):,} bytes ({len(selector) / 1024:.0f} KB)")

# Compile the selector â€” this allocates ~244 MB
compiled = sv.compile(selector)

current, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()
tracemalloc.stop()

print(f"Compiled selector count: {len(compiled.selectors):,}")
print(f"Current memory: {current / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB")
print(f"Peak memory: {peak / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB")
print(f"Amplification ratio: {peak / len(selector):.0f}x")

# Expected output:
# Selector string size: 499,999 bytes (488 KB)
# Compiled selector count: 250,000
# Current memory: ~244 MB
# Peak memory: ~244 MB
# Amplification ratio: ~488x

Impact

Severity: High

An attacker can exhaust available memory on any server-side Python application that compiles user-supplied CSS selectors via soupsieve. This can cause:

OOM kills in containerised deployments (Kubernetes pods, Docker containers) with memory limits
Swap thrashing on bare-metal servers, degrading performance for all co-located processes
Process termination via Python's MemoryError exception if the system runs out of addressable memory

Parameter	Value
Input size	~500 KB selector string
Memory allocated	~244 MB
Amplification ratio	~488Ã—
Per-object overhead	~976 bytes per selector
Authentication required	None
User interaction required	None

Scalability of attack: The memory allocation scales linearly - doubling the selector count doubles memory usage. An attacker can tune the payload to exactly exhaust a target's memory limits. Multiple concurrent requests multiply the effect.

Downstream exposure: soupsieve is an automatic dependency of beautifulsoup4, one of the most widely installed Python packages. Any web application accepting CSS selectors from users (e.g., web scraping APIs, content filtering tools, CMS preview features) is potentially affected.

Credit

Discovered by a security research team from the University of Sydney, focused on detecting open source software vulnerabilities. Liyi Zhou: https://lzhou1110.github.io/ Ziyue Wang: https://zyy0530.github.io/ Strick: https://str1ckl4nd.github.io/ Maurice: https://maurice.busystar.org/ Chenchen Yu: https://7thparkk.github.io/

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21342-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2026-07-14 10:43 - Updated: 2026-07-14 10:43

Summary

Security update for python-soupsieve

Severity

Important

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for python-soupsieve

Description of the patch: This update for python-soupsieve fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-49476: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists (bsc#1271187). - CVE-2026-49477: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Selector Parser (bsc#1271188).

Patchnames: openSUSE-Leap-16.0-1246

CVE-2026-49476

7.5 (High)


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

Affected products

Recommended 1 product

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:python313-soupsieve-2.6-160000.4.1.noarch		—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

CVE-2026-49477

7.5 (High)


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

Affected products

Recommended 1 product

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:python313-soupsieve-2.6-160000.4.1.noarch		—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

References

10 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/o…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1271187	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1271188	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49476/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49477/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49476	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1271187	external
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49477	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1271188	external

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PYSEC-2026-3071

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-13 15:46 - Updated: 2026-07-13 16:06

Details

Summary

A 500 KB selector string triggers allocation of approximately 244 MB of heap memory - a 488x— amplification ratio**.

Details

Affected code: soupsieve/css_parser.py, lines ~204, 925, 1106

When a selector string such as a,a,a,... (with 250,000 comma-separated items) is passed to sv.compile(), the parser:

Tokenises the entire string and identifies each comma-delimited segment (line ~1106)
Parses each segment into a full Selector object with all associated metadata (line ~925)
Stores all parsed selectors in a SelectorList (line ~204)

Attack surface: Any application that passes user-supplied CSS selectors to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup's .select() / .select_one().

Proof of Concept

import tracemalloc
import soupsieve as sv

tracemalloc.start()

# Build a 500 KB selector string: "a,a,a,...,a" (250,000 items)
count = 250_000
selector = ",".join("a" for _ in range(count))
print(f"Selector string size: {len(selector):,} bytes ({len(selector) / 1024:.0f} KB)")

# Compile the selector â€” this allocates ~244 MB
compiled = sv.compile(selector)

current, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()
tracemalloc.stop()

print(f"Compiled selector count: {len(compiled.selectors):,}")
print(f"Current memory: {current / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB")
print(f"Peak memory: {peak / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB")
print(f"Amplification ratio: {peak / len(selector):.0f}x")

# Expected output:
# Selector string size: 499,999 bytes (488 KB)
# Compiled selector count: 250,000
# Current memory: ~244 MB
# Peak memory: ~244 MB
# Amplification ratio: ~488x

Impact

Severity: High

An attacker can exhaust available memory on any server-side Python application that compiles user-supplied CSS selectors via soupsieve. This can cause:

OOM kills in containerised deployments (Kubernetes pods, Docker containers) with memory limits
Swap thrashing on bare-metal servers, degrading performance for all co-located processes
Process termination via Python's MemoryError exception if the system runs out of addressable memory

Parameter	Value
Input size	~500 KB selector string
Memory allocated	~244 MB
Amplification ratio	~488Ã—
Per-object overhead	~976 bytes per selector
Authentication required	None
User interaction required	None

Credit

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

Impacted products

Name	purl
soupsieve	pkg:pypi/soupsieve

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  "details": "### Summary\n\nThe CSS selector parser in soupsieve (the CSS selector engine for Beautiful Soup 4) allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists. An attacker who can supply a crafted CSS selector string to `soupsieve.compile()` or Beautiful Soup\u0027s `.select()` / `.select_one()` can cause the application to allocate hundreds of megabytes of heap memory from a relatively small input, leading to memory exhaustion and denial of service.\n\nTo be completely transparent, AI tools helped surface this issue. However, it was independently reproduced and carefully validated. Researchers follow responsible disclosure practices and originally shared this report privately.\n\nA **500 KB** selector string triggers allocation of approximately **244 MB** of heap memory - a 488x\u2014 amplification ratio**.\n\n### Details\n\n**Affected code:** `soupsieve/css_parser.py`, lines ~204, 925, 1106\n\nThe soupsieve CSS parser splits comma-separated selector lists and creates one `CSSSelector` object per list item. Each `CSSSelector` object contains parsed selector data structures including `SelectorList`, `Selector`, and associated tag/attribute/pseudo-class metadata.\n\nWhen a selector string such as `a,a,a,...` (with 250,000 comma-separated items) is passed to `sv.compile()`, the parser:\n\n1. Tokenises the entire string and identifies each comma-delimited segment (line ~1106)\n2. Parses each segment into a full `Selector` object with all associated metadata (line ~925)\n3. Stores all parsed selectors in a `SelectorList` (line ~204)\n\n**Root cause:** No limit is enforced on the number of selectors in a comma-separated list. The parser will attempt to parse and store an arbitrary number of selectors, with each selector object consuming approximately **976 bytes** of heap memory. The total allocation scales linearly with the number of list items, but the amplification ratio (output memory / input bytes) is extremely high because each single-character selector like `a` expands into a complex object graph.\n\n**Attack surface:** Any application that passes user-supplied CSS selectors to `soupsieve.compile()` or Beautiful Soup\u0027s `.select()` / `.select_one()`.\n\n### Proof of Concept\n\n```python\nimport tracemalloc\nimport soupsieve as sv\n\ntracemalloc.start()\n\n# Build a 500 KB selector string: \"a,a,a,...,a\" (250,000 items)\ncount = 250_000\nselector = \",\".join(\"a\" for _ in range(count))\nprint(f\"Selector string size: {len(selector):,} bytes ({len(selector) / 1024:.0f} KB)\")\n\n# Compile the selector \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this allocates ~244 MB\ncompiled = sv.compile(selector)\n\ncurrent, peak = tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()\ntracemalloc.stop()\n\nprint(f\"Compiled selector count: {len(compiled.selectors):,}\")\nprint(f\"Current memory: {current / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB\")\nprint(f\"Peak memory: {peak / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB\")\nprint(f\"Amplification ratio: {peak / len(selector):.0f}x\")\n\n# Expected output:\n# Selector string size: 499,999 bytes (488 KB)\n# Compiled selector count: 250,000\n# Current memory: ~244 MB\n# Peak memory: ~244 MB\n# Amplification ratio: ~488x\n```\n\n### Impact\n\n**Severity: High**\n\nAn attacker can exhaust available memory on any server-side Python application that compiles user-supplied CSS selectors via soupsieve. This can cause:\n\n- **OOM kills** in containerised deployments (Kubernetes pods, Docker containers) with memory limits\n- **Swap thrashing** on bare-metal servers, degrading performance for all co-located processes\n- **Process termination** via Python\u0027s `MemoryError` exception if the system runs out of addressable memory\n\n| Parameter | Value |\n|---|---|\n| Input size | ~500 KB selector string |\n| Memory allocated | ~244 MB |\n| Amplification ratio | ~488\u00c3\u2014 |\n| Per-object overhead | ~976 bytes per selector |\n| Authentication required | None |\n| User interaction required | None |\n\n**Scalability of attack:** The memory allocation scales linearly - doubling the selector count doubles memory usage. An attacker can tune the payload to exactly exhaust a target\u0027s memory limits. Multiple concurrent requests multiply the effect.\n\n**Downstream exposure:** soupsieve is an automatic dependency of `beautifulsoup4`, one of the most widely installed Python packages. Any web application accepting CSS selectors from users (e.g., web scraping APIs, content filtering tools, CMS preview features) is potentially affected.\n\n---\n### Credit\n\nDiscovered by a security research team from the University of Sydney, focused on detecting open source software vulnerabilities.\nLiyi Zhou: https://lzhou1110.github.io/\nZiyue Wang: https://zyy0530.github.io/\nStrick: https://str1ckl4nd.github.io/\nMaurice: https://maurice.busystar.org/\nChenchen Yu: https://7thparkk.github.io/",
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CVE-2026-49476 (GCVE-0-2026-49476)

FKIE_CVE-2026-49476

GHSA-2WC2-FM75-P42X

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