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CVE-2025-5889

brace-expansion: juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redos

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.1

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 · 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity