Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 3.0, the CSS_ESCAPES and IDENTIFIER regular-expression subpatterns can backtrack exponentially on runs of ambiguous digit escapes in an attribute-name or tag position of an otherwise valid selector. The failure occurs during selector compilation through soupsieve.compile() or Beautiful Soup select() before SELECTOR_LIMIT is applied, so an application that accepts untrusted selector strings can have a worker stalled by a short input. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.
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