GHSA-jxxr-4gwj-5jf2MediumCVSS 6.5
brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
Workaround
Ensure the string to be expanded doesn't contain more values than the desired max item count.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/brace-expansion:>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.6