CVE-2025-5889

juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redos

State: Published
Severity: 2.3 Low
Published: Jun 9, 2025
Updated: Jun 11, 2025
Reserved: Jun 9, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion up to 1.1.11/2.0.1/3.0.0/4.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function expand of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.12, 2.0.2, 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	2.3 Low	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
3.0	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	VulDB
2.0	2.1 Low	AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CWE-400 Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
brace-expansionjuliangruber	1.1.0Affected 1.1.1Affected 1.1.2Affected 1.1.3Affected 1.1.4Affected 1.1.5Affected 1.1.6Affected 1.1.7Affected 1.1.8Affected 1.1.9Affected 1.1.10Affected 1.1.11Affected 2.0.0Affected 2.0.1Affected 3.0Affected 4.0Affected 1.1.12Not affected 2.0.2Not affected 3.0.1Not affected 4.0.1Not affected

References

VDB-311660 | juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redosvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-311660 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #585717 | juliangruber @juliangruber/brace-expansion 1.1.11 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexitythird-party-advisory
https://gist.github.com/mmmsssttt404/37a40ce7d6e5ca604858fe30814d9466exploit
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/65/commits/a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5issue-trackingpatch
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/releases/tag/v4.0.1patch

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