GHSA-v6h2-p8h4-qcjw

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    GHSA-v6h2-p8h4-qcjw

    Published: 9 Jun 2025Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
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    Summary: brace-expansion Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: brace-expansion

    Purl: pkg:npm/brace-expansion

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 2.0.0
    Fixed -2.0.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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