Findings

CVE-2026-93687

braces through 3.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in the recursive AST walkers that lack depth guards.

Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Oct 14, 2026 · micromatch braces

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.

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Timeline

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  1. Sep 18, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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.

  2. Oct 14, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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.

Affected

  • vendor micromatch bracesversion unspecified

Sources

  • CIRCL Vulnerability LookupVulnerability recordCVE-2026-93687

    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.

    vulnerability.circl.lu
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-93687

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-93687

    30-day exploitation probability 0.8%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-93687

    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.

    nvd.nist.gov

References

CVE-2026-93687 · ZeroDay Findings