CVE-2026-9769

Summary

justhtml through 1.9.1 (fixed in 1.10.0) is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to denial of service. During JustHTML() construction, TreeBuilder.finish() unconditionally calls _populate_selectedcontent(), which recursively traverses the DOM tree via _find_elements()/_find_element() without a depth bound. An attacker who can supply HTML for parsing can provide deeply nested elements (e.g., ~1000 nested <div> tags, roughly 11 KB) to exceed CPython's default recursion limit and trigger an unhandled RecursionError, which may abort parsing, fail requests, or terminate a worker/process depending on the host application's exception handling.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

References

• https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-v7cf-c9rm-wm3j
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-denial-of-service-via-deeply-nested-html

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