| Name | CVE-2026-93687 |
| Description | braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards. Attackers can supply deeply nested brace patterns under the character limit to exhaust the call stack and terminate the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1148400 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-braces (PTS) | bookworm | 3.0.2+~3.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 3.0.3+~3.0.5-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| node-braces | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1148400 |
Notes
[trixie] - node-braces <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - node-braces <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70