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CVE-2025-5889

Severity CVSS v4.0:
LOW
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
09/06/2025
Last modified:
12/06/2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion up to 1.1.11/2.0.1/3.0.0/4.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function expand of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.12, 2.0.2, 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Impact

Vector 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.30 LOW
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Attack Requirements (AT): None
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): None
Integrity (VI): None
Availability (VA): Low
Confidentiality (SC): None
Integrity (SI): None
Availability (SA): None
Exploit Maturity (E): POC

Base Score 4.0
2.30
Severity 4.0
LOW
Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.10 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x
3.10
Severity 3.x
LOW
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

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