justhtml before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via CSS Selector
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
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EmilStenstrom | justhtml | before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | CNA |
- 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
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-4671
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hm7q-2p3r-88q4
- 2026-10-14 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More EmilStenstrom vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-4671 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-4671 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hm7q-2p3r-88q4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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