CVE-2017-18077

HIGH

brace-expansion < 1.1.7 - Regular Expression Denial of Service via Comma Character Input

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

index.js in brace-expansion before 1.1.7 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, as demonstrated by an expand argument containing many comma characters.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/862712

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0263
EPSS Percentile 83.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
brace_expansion_project/brace_expansion < 1.1.7
npm/brace-expansion 0 - 1.1.7npm
Published Jan 27, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026