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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-4671 EUVD-2026-64651GHSA-hm7q-2p3r-88q4GHSA-r8cj-3554-33mr

justhtml before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via CSS Selector

Published Aug 23, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

justhtml before 1.18.0 contains multiple low-severity denial-of-service issues in CSS selector handling and linkification. Applications that evaluate attacker-controlled selector strings (via query(), matches(), or selector-based transforms), run selector matching over very large untrusted documents, construct DOM trees from untrusted structure, or enable linkification over attacker-controlled text may consume disproportionate CPU or memory. Triggers include oversized selectors, large selector lists, oversized compound selectors, long combinator chains, deeply nested functional pseudo-classes, repeated token/positional matching, cyclic DOM graphs causing non-terminating traversal, and punctuation-heavy or trailing-bracket linkification input. These are availability-only concerns and do not by themselves allow script execution, data disclosure, or sanitizer bypass. Default JustHTML(sanitize=True) usage is not expected to be exposed, since selectors are normally supplied by application code.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
EmilStenstrom justhtml < 1.18.0 1.18.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI justhtml < 1.18.0 1.18.0 GHSA-r8cj-3554-33mr

References