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CVE-2026-102277

brace-expansion: Quadratic-time expansion of the `{a},b}` rewrite causes CPU denial of service PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.21, 2.1.7, 3.0.9, and 5.0.12, the expand function handles untrusted {a},b}-shaped patterns with many trailing closing braces by restarting its scan once for each trailing closing brace. The successive full-input rescans with linear working-string growth cause quadratic CPU time and memory pressure that can block the Node.js event loop. The process eventually recovers, making the impact a recoverable CPU denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.21, 2.1.7, 3.0.9, and 5.0.12.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
juliangruber / brace-expansionaffected >= 4.0.0, < 5.0.12; affected >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.9; affected >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.7; affected < 1.1.21

CWE

CWE-400, CWE-407

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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