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TI-2026-04066 Aliases CVE-2026-4671GHSA-hm7q-2p3r-88q4

justhtml before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via CSS Selector

Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

justhtml before 1.18.0 contains multiple low-severity denial-of-service issues in CSS selector handling and linkification. Applications that evaluate attacker-controlled selector strings (via query(), matches(), or selector-based transforms), run selector matching over very large untrusted documents, construct DOM trees from untrusted structure, or enable linkification over attacker-controlled text may consume disproportionate CPU or memory. Triggers include oversized selectors, large selector lists, oversized compound selectors, long combinator chains, deeply nested functional pseudo-classes, repeated token/positional matching, cyclic DOM graphs causing non-terminating traversal, and punctuation-heavy or trailing-bracket linkification input. These are availability-only concerns and do not by themselves allow script execution, data disclosure, or sanitizer bypass. Default JustHTML(sanitize=True) usage is not expected to be exposed, since selectors are normally supplied by application code.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00652 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed justhtml (EmilStenstrom): 1.18.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
EmilStenstromjusthtmlbefore 1.18.01.18.0Patch availableCNA
  • justhtml VendorEmilStenstrom Affected before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA justhtml (EmilStenstrom) Fixed in 1.18.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-4671
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hm7q-2p3r-88q4
  3. 2026-10-14 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

  • TI-2026-07422 justhtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via Markdown CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-08560 justhtml before 1.10.0 Denial of Service via deeply nested HTML CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-52557 justhtml before 3.11.0 XSS via selectedcontent projection CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1
  • TI-2026-04717 justhtml before 1.13.0 XSS via code fence breakout CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1
  • TI-2026-06871 justhtml before 1.16.0 Multiple Security Issues via Sanitization CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-04716 justhtml before 1.15.0 Multiple Security Issues CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
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