CVE-2026-93687
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/09/2026
Last modified:
22/09/2026
Description
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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
8.70
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns


