CVE-2026-93687
highbraces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards.
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.
CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-18 16:17
Modified: 2026-10-14 23:19
NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested... disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/73#issuecomment-5996574974 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC · record ↗