CVE-2026-9769 PUBLISHED

justhtml before 1.10.0 Denial of Service via deeply nested HTML

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 27.05.2026 Published: 23.08.2026 Updated: 23.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor EmilStenstrom
Product justhtml
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.10.0 (excl.)
  • Version 1.10.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • kq5y reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Recursion CWE