CVE-2026-25547
CRITICAL@isaacs/brace-expansion < 5.0.1 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Brace Range Expansion
Title source: llmDescription
@isaacs/brace-expansion is a hybrid CJS/ESM TypeScript fork of brace-expansion. Prior to version 5.0.1, @isaacs/brace-expansion is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) issue caused by unbounded brace range expansion. When an attacker provides a pattern containing repeated numeric brace ranges, the library attempts to eagerly generate every possible combination synchronously. Because the expansion grows exponentially, even a small input can consume excessive CPU and memory and may crash the Node.js process. This issue has been patched in version 5.0.1.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/isaacs/brace-expansion/security/advisories/GHSA-7h2j-956f-4vf2
Scores
CVSS v4
9.2
EPSS
0.0048
EPSS Percentile
37.5%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
Status
published
Products (2)
isaacs/brace-expansion
0 - 5.0.1npm
isaacs/brace-expansion
< 5.0.1
Published
Feb 04, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026