brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00361.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
juliangruber brace-expansion unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 5.0.6

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References
Link Providers
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/c7e33ec13ac1a684c116720843ce24e208611754 cve-icon
https://www.npmjs.com/package/brace-expansion cve-icon
History

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:45:00 +0000

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Title Application Denial of Service via Brace Expansion Exponential Complexity

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:45:00 +0000

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Description brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.
Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-407
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.7, '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:N/E:P/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: seal

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-30T12:43:23.029Z

Reserved: 2026-06-24T10:17:07.027Z

Link: CVE-2026-13149

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-30T12:43:19.177Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-30T10:30:11Z

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