CVE-2026-102278

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-29. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — Patch released this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-88555 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qhr7-859c-m2p7 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11, deeply nested brace groups cause expand_() to recurse once per nesting level at comma-member and single-set expansion sites, exhausting the native stack before output limits can apply and potentially terminating the Node.js process. expand_ performs uncontrolled recursion for nested brace alternatives and single-part sets. deeply nested brace groups supplied as an untrusted pattern. expand_ is affected. expand is affected. Comma members is affected. Single set is affected. native stack exhaustion during nested sub-expansion. process-terminating denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
49
EG Risk 49/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
42nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 28, 2026

Last Modified

October 1, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 28, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit.
GitHub commit

commit de84f144e981 (juliangruber/brace-expansion)

Fix landed in juliangruber/brace-expansion commit de84f144e981 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/de84f144e9816f30e25fc8179e2e1249ab6df0db
GitHub commit

commit 935d78f32f33 (juliangruber/brace-expansion)

Fix landed in juliangruber/brace-expansion commit 935d78f32f33 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/935d78f32f335b2ff76578e5c5e877d31ae9888c
GitHub commit

commit 1efee7c397c1 (juliangruber/brace-expansion)

Fix landed in juliangruber/brace-expansion commit 1efee7c397c1 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/1efee7c397c191da6287a78ec19512476a966a7b
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

DoS via uncontrolled recursion on nested brace groups causing stack exhaustion · Advisory · juliangruber/brace-expansion · GitHub

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/security/advisories/GHSA-qhr7-859c-m2p7

Patch Availability(21)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhoai/odh-mod-arch-model-registry-rhel9:17930018272026-10-29redhat
redhatsatellite/iop-remediations-rhel9:17930922532026-10-29redhat
redhatnodejs:24-8100020261027151919.6d8804032026-10-29redhat
redhatsatellite/iop-remediations-rhel9:17930651382026-10-29redhat
redhatnodejs:24-9080020261027142403.rhel92026-10-29redhat
redhatdiscovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:17926039242026-10-28redhat
redhatdiscovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:17932185302026-10-28redhat
redhatopenshift4/nmstate-console-plugin-rhel9:17928520322026-10-26redhat
redhatopenshift4/nmstate-console-plugin-rhel9:17928758552026-10-26redhat
redhatopenshift4/nmstate-console-plugin-rhel9:17928672542026-10-26redhat
redhatopenshift4/nmstate-console-plugin-rhel9:17920570772026-10-20redhat
redhatnodejs22-main-22.23.3-2.3.2.2.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatnodejs24-main-24.21.0-1.1.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatnodejs26-main-11.19.1-1.26.10.0.0.2.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatnodejs26-main-26.10.0-0.3.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatnodejs22-main-10.9.9-1.22.23.3.2.3.2.1.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatnodejs24-main-11.19.0-1.24.21.0.1.2.hum12026-09-30redhat
npmbrace-expansion @ 5.0.11 (fixes >= 4.0.0, < 5.0.11)—ghsa
npmbrace-expansion @ 3.0.8 (fixes >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.8)—ghsa
npmbrace-expansion @ 2.1.6 (fixes >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.6)—ghsa
npmbrace-expansion @ 1.1.20 (fixes < 1.1.20)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-brace-expansion2.0.1+~1.1.0-1 ... 2.1.7+~1.1.2-1 (8 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-brace-expansion2.0.1+~1.1.0-2 ... 2.1.7+~1.1.2-1 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-brace-expansion2.0.1+~1.1.0-2, 2.0.3+~1.1.2-1, 2.0.3+~1.1.2-2, 2.0.3+~1.1.2-3, 2.1.4+~1.1.2-1
  • every version up to 2.1.7+~1.1.2-1: fixed in 2.1.7+~1.1.2-1
—
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
brace-expansion—
  • 4.0.0 up to 5.0.11: fixed in 5.0.11
  • 3.0.0 up to 3.0.8: fixed in 3.0.8
  • 2.0.0 up to 2.1.6: fixed in 2.1.6
  • every version up to 1.1.20: fixed in 1.1.20
—

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 70× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 11:58 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 11:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qhr7-859c-m2p7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  4. 2026-11-01 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qhr7-859c-m2p7 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  5. 2026-11-01 08:00 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  7. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  9. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  10. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  11. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  13. 2026-10-25 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-25 03:54 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-25 03:54 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  17. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  18. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  19. 2026-10-21 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  20. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  21. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  22. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  23. 2026-10-18 05:10 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-17 19:51 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-17 19:51 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  2. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  3. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  4. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  5. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 16:41 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  8. 2026-10-12 03:28 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-11 20:16 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 15:26 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-11 15:02 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  14. 2026-10-11 03:34 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-11 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  17. 2026-10-10 15:40 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-10 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-10 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  21. 2026-10-09 15:45 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-09 03:53 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-09 03:53 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  25. 2026-10-08 16:01 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-08 02:09 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-08 02:09 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  29. 2026-10-07 14:18 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-07 02:00 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-07 02:00 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  33. 2026-10-06 14:05 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-06 02:13 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-06 02:13 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  37. 2026-10-05 14:19 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-05 02:28 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  41. 2026-10-04 14:36 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-04 02:44 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-03 14:53 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-03 14:53 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  46. 2026-10-03 03:02 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-03 03:02 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-02 15:10 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-02 03:18 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-02 03:18 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  52. 2026-10-01 15:23 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-10-01 15:23 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-01 15:06 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-01 15:06 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-01 07:53 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-09-30 20:02 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-09-30 20:02 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  60. 2026-09-29 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 26th percentile
  62. 2026-09-29 09:09 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-28 21:18 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-28 21:03 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.5 HIGH
  65. 2026-09-28 21:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-102278?
CVE-2026-102278 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 28, 2026. The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11, deeply nested brace groups cause expand_() to recurse once per nesting level at comma-member and single-set expansion sites, exhausting the native stack before…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-102278 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-102278 was published on September 28, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 1, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-102278 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-102278 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (42nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-102278?
CVE-2026-102278 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-102278?
A fix for CVE-2026-102278 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-102278 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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