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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Public exploits 3
- BernydotJar/braces-security-backport PoC on GitHub
- canmenzo/cve-2026-93687-braces PoC on GitHub
- scastillo-jp/braces-fork PoC on GitHub
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.7NVD modified 2026-10-14 23:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/compile.js#L49-L53
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/expand.js#L102-L105
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/3.0.3/lib/parse.js#L38-L40
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/70
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/braces-through-3.0.3-stack-overflow-via-deeply-nested-patterns
- https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/73#issuecomment-5996574974