⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories
Withdrawn: October 23, 2026
GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xmHighCVSS 7.5
Withdrawn Advisory: braces vulnerable to stack-exhaustion denial of service through deeply nested patterns
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Withdrawn Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it's not a practically exploitable vulnerability. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards. Attackers can supply deeply nested brace patterns under the character limit to exhaust the call stack and terminate the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/braces:<= 3.0.3
🔗 References (9)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93687
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/73#issuecomment-5996574974
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm