Description
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.
Problem types
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Product status
References
github.com/...psieve/security/advisories/GHSA-2wc2-fm75-p42x
github.com/...ommit/28108ab805818c832d9568142a99844fd95a0d39
github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4