CVE-2025-5889

juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redos

LOW 2.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.59 % · percentile 48 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
VulDB
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion up to 1.1.11/2.0.1/3.0.0/4.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function expand of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.12, 2.0.2, 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0LOW 2.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PVulDB
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:CVulDB
CVSS 3.0LOW 3.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:CVulDB
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:CVulDB
CVSS 4.0LOW 1.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · cna@vuldb.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LNVD · cna@vuldb.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · cna@vuldb.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
juliangruber · brace-expansionaffected 1.1.0 ; affected 1.1.1 ; affected 1.1.2 ; affected 1.1.3 ; affected 1.1.4 ; affected 1.1.5

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD