MEDIUM 6.5 npm
brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
GHSA-jxxr-4gwj-5jf2 · CVE-2026-45149
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Description
The max option was being applied too late:
When expanding a single large numeric range like {1..10000000}, the sequence generation loop generates all 10 million intermediate elements before the max limit is applied With max=10, the output is correctly limited to 10 items, but the process still allocates ~505 MB and spends ~800ms building the full intermediate array.
Workaround
Ensure the string to be expanded doesn't contain more values than the desired max item count.
References
- WEB https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/security/advisories/GHSA-jxxr-4gwj-5jf2
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45149
- WEB https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/commit/c0b095bdc52bc4c36dc88deddbadabc49f8371e5
- PACKAGE https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion
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