CVE-2026-45149 (GCVE-0-2026-45149)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-29 19:55 – Updated: 2026-05-29 19:55
VLAI
Title
brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
Summary
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.
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
juliangruber brace-expansion Affected: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.6
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