CVE-2026-93687
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.7
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
Published
2026-09-18 16:17:15.507000
Last modified
2026-11-05 15:17:27.113000
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