CVE-2026-45149

A flaw was found in the brace-expansion library. This vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by providing a large numeric range for expansion. The library allocates excessive memory to generate all intermediate elements before applying the maximum limit, leading to high memory consumption and potential application crashes. This can impact the availability of systems using the library.

Red Hat products ship brace-expansion versions 1.x and 2.x, which are not affected by this vulnerability. The flaw exists only in versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.