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.

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 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
266751	Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: nodejs-brace-expansion (UTSA-2025-984691)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	low
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

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