CVE-2024-4068CWE-1050

Memory Exhaustion in braces

High · published May 13, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The NPM package `braces`, versions prior to 3.0.3, fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is reached, and the program will crash.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01471 · 73.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1050 · Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
Published
2024-05-13T10:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 MAY 10:06Z
    Memory Exhaustion in braces
    cvelistv5