High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2026· Updated Aug 26, 2026
CVE-2026-9769
CVE-2026-9769
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 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 packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
justhtmlPyPI | < 1.10.0 | 1.10.0 |
Affected products
2v1.9.1, v1.9.0, v1.8.0, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: v1.9.1, v1.9.0, v1.8.0, …
- (no CPE)range: <=1.9.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7cf-c9rm-wm3jghsaADVISORY
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9769ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/releases/tag/v1.10.0ghsaWEB
- github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-v7cf-c9rm-wm3jnvdWEB
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-denial-of-service-via-deeply-nested-htmlnvdWEB
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