CVE - CVE-2025-5889

CVE-ID
CVE-2025-5889	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion up to 1.1.11/2.0.1/3.0.0/4.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function expand of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.12, 2.0.2, 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
References
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MISC:Submit #585717 \| juliangruber @juliangruber/brace-expansion 1.1.11 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity URL:https://vuldb.com/?submit.585717 MISC:VDB-311660 \| CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) URL:https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311660 MISC:VDB-311660 \| juliangruber brace-expansion index.js expand redos URL:https://vuldb.com/?id.311660 MISC:https://gist.github.com/mmmsssttt404/37a40ce7d6e5ca604858fe30814d9466 URL:https://gist.github.com/mmmsssttt404/37a40ce7d6e5ca604858fe30814d9466 MISC:https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/65/commits/a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5 URL:https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/65/commits/a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5 MISC:https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/releases/tag/v4.0.1 URL:https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/releases/tag/v4.0.1
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Date Record Created
20250609	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20250609)
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