Infinite loop Affecting org.webjars.npm:brace-expansion package, versions [,1.1.13)[2.0.0, 2.0.3)[3.0.0, 3.0.2)[4.0.0 ,5.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-15789760
  • published27 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Mar 2026
  • creditSubhash Dasyam

Introduced: 26 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-33750  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:brace-expansion to version 1.1.13, 2.0.3, 3.0.2, 5.0.5 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:brace-expansion is a WebJar for brace-expansion.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop through the expand function when processing a brace pattern with a zero step value. An attacker can cause the process to hang and exhaust system memory by supplying specially crafted input, such as {1..2..0}. This can lead to significant resource consumption and denial of service.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by sanitizing strings passed to expand to ensure a step value of 0 is not used.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1