| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 862712 |
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, sid | 1.1.11-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| node-brace-expansion | source | (unstable) | 1.1.8-1 | unimportant | 862712 | |
| node-brace-expansion | source | stretch | 1.1.6-1+deb9u1 |
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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