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brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded expansion length causing an out-of-memory process crash
brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded expansion length causing an out-of-memory process crash
Affected packages
- brace-expansion
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- 0.34%
- EPSS percentile
- 26.5%
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs. This advisory is in the top 26%.
Sources
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/security/advisories/GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14257
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/129
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/130
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/136
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/139d015104e71433ad52a41d19467c48ecbb2c7d
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/a1bd33999ea75262c4749fff3bbb0d1372bd07b5
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/cb4b9e47cc2ec777c14b2b4492fb431a56f6a031
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/d13ff455a58b0d56704f0111e3c2a0b16ceb06eb
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/brace-expansion
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg
Recommended response stack
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