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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | justhtml before 1.10.0 Denial of Service via deeply nested HTML | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-08-23T13:34:15.503Z
Updated: 2026-08-23T13:34:15.503Z
Reserved: 2026-05-27T20:38:38.588Z
Link: CVE-2026-9769
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-23T14:16:55.277
Modified: 2026-08-23T14:16:55.277
Link: CVE-2026-9769
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