CVE WatchSep 29, 2026

CVE-2026-102276

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10, cr

CVSS

7.5

High

EPSS

0.5%

p39

KEV

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Exploit Today

0-100

Published: Sep 28, 2026 · Last modified: Sep 29, 2026 · CWE-400 · CWE-674

EPSS · 30d

0.4%EPSS · 30 days0.5%

2026-09-292026-10-25

Technical description

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10, crafted brace patterns can exhaust the native stack in parseCommaParts because parseCommaParts recursively processes the remainder once per brace group and uses push.apply to pass every element of a very large comma-part array as a function argument. Patterns containing many comma-separated brace groups trigger the recursive path, while the large array triggers the argument-array path without deep recursion. These paths cause recursive and argument-array native stack exhaustion before max or maxLength can limit output, potentially terminating the Node.js process in a process-terminating denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10.

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