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GHSA-CWFW-4GQ5-MRQX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-01-06 20:42 – Updated: 2025-11-26 16:25

Summary

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in braces

Details

A vulnerability was found in Braces versions from v2.2.0 up to but not including v2.3.1. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. This has been patched in version 2.3.1.

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    "nvd_published_at": "2021-03-30T02:15:00Z",
    "severity": "LOW"
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  "id": "GHSA-cwfw-4gq5-mrqx",
  "modified": "2025-11-26T16:25:50Z",
  "published": "2022-01-06T20:42:03Z",
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      "url": "https://github.com/micromatch/braces/commit/abdafb0cae1e0c00f184abbadc692f4eaa98f451"
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  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in braces"
}

CVE-2018-1109 (GCVE-0-2018-1109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-30 01:52 – Updated: 2025-12-01 14:18

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Braces versions 2.2.0 and above, prior to 2.3.1. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-185 - >CWE-400

Assigner

redhat

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547272	x_refsource_MISC
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:braces:20180219	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	nodejs-braces	Affected: 2.2.0 , < 2.3.1 (semver)

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-CWFW-4GQ5-MRQX

CVE-2018-1109 (GCVE-0-2018-1109)

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