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.
Remediation
References
https://bugs.debian.org/862712
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33
https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/338
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