CVE-2017-18077

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

index.js in brace-expansion before 1.1.7 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, as demonstrated by an expand argument containing many comma characters.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugs.debian.org/862712Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/862712Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 27, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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