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Improper Input Validation in brace-expansion

CVE-2017-18077

  • brace-expansion
  • org.webjars.npm:brace-expansion
High
7.5/10

Summary

index.js in brace-expansion before 1.1.7 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, as demonstrated by an expand argument containing many comma characters.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published