CVE-2026-45149CWE-400

brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection

Medium · published May 29, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
27.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. From 5.0.0 to before 5.0.6, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.0.6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00355 · 27.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-05-29T19:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 MAY 19:55Z
    brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
    cvelistv5