CVE-2026-93687 (GCVE-0-2026-93687)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-18 15:06 – Updated: 2026-10-12 06:18
VLAI
Title
braces through 3.0.3 Stack Overflow via Deeply Nested Patterns
Summary
braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards. Attackers can supply deeply nested brace patterns under the character limit to exhaust the call stack and terminate the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-18 16:56 UTC
CWE
Assigner
VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 5953 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
micromatch braces Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.0.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:jonschlinkert:braces:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
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Date Public
2026-09-17 00:00
Credits
Wayde Shi (PayPal Cyber Security Team)
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    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.