High severity · published Sep 28, 2026
CVE-2026-102276
brace-expansion: DoS via uncontrolled recursion in parseCommaParts causing stack exhaustion
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BR
brace-expansion · juliangruber
>= 4.0.0, < 5.0.10; >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.7; >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.5; < 1.1.19 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102276
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102276
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/security/advisories/GHSA-6j4f-fj2g-mc7p
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/0bcbfc0a5928c3073d48f42999d1ce4fc1c42fbc
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/316359e6019c39b3254c8ba8e25dc586a480652c
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/5171e681c0922b7ae8bfaf9a331e309107be6edc
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/6735c94873ca570bcdd6a0690033bdd3126379d3
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