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CVE-2026-126191: facelessuser soupsieve · ReDoS

Affects facelessuser soupsieveSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade to 3.0 soon.

Data as of 12 Nov 2026, 17:04 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (GitHub_M)CVSS 3.17.5
Patch
Available – fixed in 3.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 12 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 12 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade facelessuser soupsieve to 3.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
facelessusersoupsieveAffected
  • <3.0
Fixed in
  • 3.0

AI-suggested

Upgrade soupsieve to version 3.0 or later, where the inefficient regular expression patterns causing exponential backtracking have been fixed. No other mitigation is required.

Description

CVE-2026-126191 is a high-severity vulnerability in the soupsieve CSS selector library used with Beautiful Soup 4. Versions prior to 3.0 contain inefficient regular expression patterns that can cause exponential backtracking when processing certain ambiguous digit escapes in selectors. This can stall worker processes during selector compilation if untrusted selector strings are used. The issue is resolved in soupsieve version 3.0.

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