CVE-2026-102276

brace-expansion: DoS via uncontrolled recursion in parseCommaParts causing stack exhaustion

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 28, 2026
Updated
Sep 29, 2026
Reserved
Sep 28, 2026

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Description

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10, crafted brace patterns can exhaust the native stack in parseCommaParts because parseCommaParts recursively processes the remainder once per brace group and uses push.apply to pass every element of a very large comma-part array as a function argument. Patterns containing many comma-separated brace groups trigger the recursive path, while the large array triggers the argument-array path without deep recursion. These paths cause recursive and argument-array native stack exhaustion before max or maxLength can limit output, potentially terminating the Node.js process in a process-terminating denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Affected Products

ProductVersions
brace-expansionjuliangruber
  • >= 4.0.0, < 5.0.10Affected
  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.7Affected
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.5Affected
  • < 1.1.19Affected

References

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