Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.10, matching a developer-authored selector that places the general sibling combinator inside :has() repeatedly scans each candidate element's following siblings when the right-hand side is absent, producing quadratic work on attacker-controlled HTML. Applications that evaluate a fixed selector such as div:has(a ~ b) over untrusted markup can have a worker occupied for minutes by a small document, while the adjacent sibling form and trusted-only document processing are not affected in the same way. This issue is fixed in version 2.10.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4j63-6c4x-wfg4 Soup Sieve: General sibling combinator inside :has() matches untrusted HTML in quadratic time
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Description Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.10, matching a developer-authored selector that places the general sibling combinator inside :has() repeatedly scans each candidate element's following siblings when the right-hand side is absent, producing quadratic work on attacker-controlled HTML. Applications that evaluate a fixed selector such as div:has(a ~ b) over untrusted markup can have a worker occupied for minutes by a small document, while the adjacent sibling form and trusted-only document processing are not affected in the same way. This issue is fixed in version 2.10.
Title Soup Sieve: General sibling combinator inside :has() matches untrusted HTML in quadratic time
Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-407
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-13T00:20:38.658Z

Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:07:44.957Z

Link: CVE-2026-126192

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-12T17:17:32.793

Modified: 2026-11-13T02:18:51.393

Link: CVE-2026-126192

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-13T01:15:12Z

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