CVE-2026-49477
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 contains a regular expression vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking when processing an attribute selector with an unterminated quoted value in soupsieve/css_parser.py, allowing an attacker who can supply untrusted CSS selector strings to soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup .select() / .select_one() to cause CPU exhaustion and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.4.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.64%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 49
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access75 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact80 %
CSS selector parser vulnerable a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) al procesar selectores atributos malformados; AV:N/PR:N permite ataque remoto sin privilegios; CWE-400 (uncontrolled resource consumption) confirma DoS por agotamiento de CPU.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-400, CWE-1333
Referencias
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/commit/eb4397618709186c109400448c6043b728217dc3
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/releases/tag/2.8.4
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-836r-79rf-4m37
- https://github.com/facelessuser/soupsieve/security/advisories/GHSA-836r-79rf-4m37
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