CVE-2026-25547 — Regex Denial of Service in Brace-expansion
Severity
9.2CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.64%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 4
Description
@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 No…
CVSS vector
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
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
2🕵️Threat Intelligence
1💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2026-25547 brace-expansion: brace-expansion: Denial of Service via unbounded brace range expansion↗2026-02-04