Description
brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.
Published: 2026-06-30
Score: 7.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Juliangruber
Juliangruber brace-expansion
Vendors & Products Juliangruber
Juliangruber brace-expansion

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:45:00 +0000

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Title Application Denial of Service via Brace Expansion Exponential Complexity

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:45:00 +0000

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Description brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.
Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-407
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.7, '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/E:P/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber'}


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Juliangruber Brace-expansion
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: seal

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-30T12:43:23.029Z

Reserved: 2026-06-24T10:17:07.027Z

Link: CVE-2026-13149

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-30T12:43:19.177Z

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-30T15:00:05Z

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