CVE-2017-18077

unknown
Published 2018-01-29 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

index.js in brace-expansion before 1.1.7 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, as demonstrated by an expand argument containing many comma characters.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18077

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.8-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.8-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.8-1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.8-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.8-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
npm npmbrace-expansion<1.1.71.1.7

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.