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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1484 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-5889)

    node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. When using default options in versions 7.5.7 and below, an     attacker-controlled archive can create a hardlink inside the extraction directory that points to a file     outside the extraction root, enabling arbitrary file read and write as the extracting user. Severity is     high because the primitive bypasses path protections and turns archive extraction into a direct filesystem     access primitive. This issue has been fixed in version 7.5.8. (CVE-2026-26960)

    node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a     hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as     C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside cwd during normal tar.x() extraction. This issue has     been patched in version 7.5.10. (CVE-2026-29786)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-1465 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-5889)

    node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. The node-tar library (<= 7.5.2) fails to sanitize the linkpath of Link     (hardlink) and SymbolicLink entries when preservePaths is false (the default secure behavior). This allows     malicious archives to bypass the extraction root restriction, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite via     hardlinks and Symlink Poisoning via absolute symlink targets. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.3.
    (CVE-2026-23745)

    node-tar,a Tar for Node.js, has a race condition vulnerability in versions up to and including 7.5.3. This     is due to an incomplete handling of Unicode path collisions in the `path-reservations` system. On case-     insensitive or normalization-insensitive filesystems (such as macOS APFS, In which it has been tested),     the library fails to lock colliding paths (e.g., `ss` and `ss`), allowing them to be processed in     parallel. This bypasses the library's internal concurrency safeguards and permits Symlink Poisoning     attacks via race conditions. The library uses a `PathReservations` system to ensure that metadata checks     and file operations for the same path are serialized. This prevents race conditions where one entry might     clobber another concurrently. This is a Race Condition which enables Arbitrary File Overwrite. This     vulnerability affects users and systems using node-tar on macOS (APFS/HFS+). Because of using `NFD`     Unicode normalization (in which `ss` and `ss` are different), conflicting paths do not have their order     properly preserved under filesystems that ignore Unicode normalization (e.g., APFS (in which `ss` causes     an inode collision with `ss`)). This enables an attacker to circumvent internal parallelization locks     (`PathReservations`) using conflicting filenames within a malicious tar archive. The patch in version     7.5.4 updates `path-reservations.js` to use a normalization form that matches the target filesystem's     behavior (e.g., `NFKD`), followed by first `toLocaleLowerCase('en')` and then `toLocaleUpperCase('en')`.
    As a workaround, users who cannot upgrade promptly, and who are programmatically using `node-tar` to     extract arbitrary tarball data should filter out all `SymbolicLink` entries (as npm does) to defend     against arbitrary file writes via this file system entry name collision issue. (CVE-2026-23950)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2025-5889)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-984691 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0645 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2025-5889:
    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0644 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2025-5889:
    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0603 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2025-5889:
    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.

    CVE-2024-53382:
    axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. The issue occurs when passing absolute     URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs to axios. Even if baseURL is set, axios sends the request to     the specified absolute URL, potentially causing SSRF and credential leakage. This issue impacts both     server-side and client-side usage of axios. This issue is fixed in 1.8.2.

    CVE-2025-27152:
    Prism (aka PrismJS) through 1.29.0 allows DOM Clobbering (with resultant XSS for untrusted input that     contains HTML but does not directly contain JavaScript), because document.currentScript lookup can be     shadowed by attacker-injected HTML elements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-5889)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1123 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-5889)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
304285	Amazon Linux 2023 : nodejs20, nodejs20-devel, nodejs20-full-i18n (ALAS2023-2026-1484)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
301342	Amazon Linux 2023 : nodejs22, nodejs22-devel, nodejs22-full-i18n (ALAS2023-2026-1465)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
436081	Alpine: npm: security update to 11.4.2-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	low
436081	Alpine: npm: security update to 11.4.2-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	low
274076	SUSE SLED15: aws-cli / python311-boto3 / python311-botocore / python311-coverage / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:3744-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
266751	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: nodejs-brace-expansion (UTSA-2025-984691)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	low
253499	TencentOS Server 4: nodejs (TSSA-2025:0645)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	low
253448	TencentOS Server 4: nodejs-nodemon (TSSA-2025:0644)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	low
249977	TencentOS Server 4: grafana (TSSA-2025:0603)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
248416	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-5889	Nessus	Misc.	low
243467	Amazon Linux 2023 : nodejs, nodejs-devel, nodejs-full-i18n (ALAS2023-2025-1123)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
427864	SCA: security update for brace-expansion (GHSA-v6h2-p8h4-qcjw)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	low
427864	SCA: security update for brace-expansion (GHSA-v6h2-p8h4-qcjw)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	low

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