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SCA: security update for braces (GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 472081

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2026-93687)

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 472081

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-93687

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-93687

cwe: CWE-674