GHSA-grv7-fg5c-xmjg
Uncontrolled resource consumption in braces
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
The NPM package `braces` fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is reached, and the program will crash.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4068
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/pull/37
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/pull/40
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/commit/415d660c3002d1ab7e63dbf490c9851da80596ff
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4068
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/98414f9f1fabe021736e26836d8306d5de747e0d/lib/parse.js#L308