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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.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
justhtmlPyPI
< 1.10.01.10.0

Affected products

2
  • Emilstenstrom/JusthtmlOSV2 versions
    v1.9.1, 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

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