| Name | CVE-2017-18077 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 862712 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-brace-expansion (PTS) | stretch | 1.1.6-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 1.1.8-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.0.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.0.1-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.0.1+~1.1.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3
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