braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards. Attackers can supply deeply nested brace patterns under the character limit to exhaust the call stack and terminate the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError.
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53
Published: 2026-09-18
Updated: 2026-09-18
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00415