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CVE-2017-18077
index.js in brace-expansion before 1.1.7 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, as demonstrated by an…
High7.5EPSS 2.6%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmbrace-expansionGHSA-832h-xg76-4gv6 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/862712 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-832h-xg76-4gv6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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