CVE-2026-93687
HIGHCVSS 7.5Description
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.
Timeline
Published:September 18th, 2026 4:17 PM
Last modified:November 5th, 2026 3:17 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 7.5 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- 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://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns
- https://github.com/advisories/ghsa-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/73#issuecomment-5996574974
Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute