cve-2024-4068
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-13 10:06
Modified
2024-11-06 13:10
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Memory Exhaustion in braces
References
596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4068/
596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647https://github.com/micromatch/braces/commit/415d660c3002d1ab7e63dbf490c9851da80596ff
596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35
596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647https://github.com/micromatch/braces/pull/37
596c5446-0ce5-4ba2-aa66-48b3b757a647https://github.com/micromatch/braces/pull/40
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