DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45149

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. From 5.0.0 to before 5.0.6, 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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45149

The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. From 5.0.0 to before 5.0.6, 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...

brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection

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...