CVE-2025-5889
brace-expansion: juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redos
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · June 10, 2025
Updated · October 9, 2026
Description
A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been identified in the brace-expansion JavaScript package. This issue occurs due to inefficient regular expression complexity, which can be exploited by an attacker providing specially crafted input. Such input could lead to excessive processing time and resource consumption, rendering applications that utilize this package unresponsive and causing a denial-of-service condition.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity