CVE-2026-102278

brace-expansion: DoS via uncontrolled recursion on nested brace groups causing stack exhaustion

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 28, 2026
Updated
Oct 1, 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 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11, deeply nested brace groups cause expand_() to recurse once per nesting level at comma-member and single-set expansion sites, exhausting the native stack before output limits can apply and potentially terminating the Node.js process. expand_ performs uncontrolled recursion for nested brace alternatives and single-part sets. deeply nested brace groups supplied as an untrusted pattern. expand_ is affected. expand is affected. Comma members is affected. Single set is affected. native stack exhaustion during nested sub-expansion. process-terminating denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11.

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, < 5.0.11Affected
  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.8Affected
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.6Affected
  • < 1.1.20Affected

References

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