CVE-2026-93687 (GCVE-0-2026-93687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 15:06
Modified
2026-10-14 23:03
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards. Attackers can supply deeply nested brace patterns under the character limit to exhaust the call stack and terminate the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
micromatch braces Version: 0   ≤ 3.0.3
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