CVE-2026-13149 (GCVE-0-2026-13149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-30 08:30 – Updated: 2026-07-08 11:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.7 (High)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-30 12:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
seal CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard – unranked: 7 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
juliangruber brace-expansion Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.0.6 (semver)
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Credits
bnbdr
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