Bug 2494953

Summary: CVE-2026-13149 forgejo: Brace-expansion: Denial of Service due to exponential-time complexity [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Jon Weiser <jweiser>
Component: forgejoAssignee: Fedora Infrastructure SIG <infra-sig>
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Description Jon Weiser 2026-06-30 14:44:19 UTC
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brace-expansion through 5.0.6 is vulnerable to denial of service. The expand() function exhibits exponential-time complexity in the number of consecutive non-expanding '{}' brace groups. An attacker who passes a crafted string to expand(), directly or transitively, can cause significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. The max option does not mitigate this, as it bounds the output size rather than the recursion work.