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node-brace-expansion — security advisory
brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.
- Products
- node-brace-expansion
- Affected versions
- 1.1.11-1, 1.1.8-1, 2.0.0-1, 2.0.1+~1.1.0-1, 2.0.1+~1.1.0-2, 2.0.1-1, 2.0.1-2, 2.0.3+~1.1.2-2, 2.0.3+~1.1.2-3, 2.1.4+~1.1.2-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-13149
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-13149
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Complete source record
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