CVE-2017-18077

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 (attack range: remote)
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, sid	1.1.8-1	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	medium

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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