#VU112890 Inefficient regular expression complexity in brace-expansion - CVE-2025-5889

 

#VU112890 Inefficient regular expression complexity in brace-expansion - CVE-2025-5889

Published: July 15, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU112890
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-5889
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
brace-expansion
Software vendor:
Julian Gruber

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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