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CVE-2026-69152 (GCVE-0-2026-69152)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-03 16:33 – Updated: 2026-08-03 20:12
VLAI
Title
brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded intermediate arrays, bypassing the CVE-2026-14257 mitigation
Summary
The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.18, 2.1.4, 3.0.6, and 5.0.9, expand() does not apply maxLength while constructing comma-alternative intermediate arrays or padded sequences, allowing attacker-controlled input to exhaust memory or block the event loop. The fix for CVE-2026-14257 is bypassed by the vulnerability. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.18, 2.1.4, 3.0.6, and 5.0.9.
Severity
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 2026-08-03 20:11 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
juliangruber brace-expansion Affected: < 1.1.18
Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.4
Affected: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.6
Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 5.0.9
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