Releases38
Frequency4 months 4 days
Last Release
Brace expansion as known from sh/bash

CVE History

CVEAffectedPublishedCVSS v3CVSS v2

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.