GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm
Withdrawn Advisory: braces vulnerable to stack-exhaustion denial of service through deeply nested patterns
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Withdrawn Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it's not a practically exploitable vulnerability. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
### Original Description
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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93687
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/73#issuecomment-5996574974
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns