Threats tagged 'ghsa-j934-xhv5-fg8f'

CVE-2026-85999 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Python library soupsieve (used by BeautifulSoup) that causes uncontrolled resource consumption (quadratic time complexity) when parsing certain valid CSS selectors containing long runs of whitespace or comments. This happens due to an inefficient regular expression search that triggers excessive backtracking, leading to significant CPU usage and interpreter stalls. The issue affects soupsieve versions prior to 2.9. Exploitation requires user-controlled CSS selectors, so applications using only hard-coded selectors are not affected.