Bug 2550331

Summary: CVE-2026-102278 openbao: brace-expansion: Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion in nested brace patterns [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ganesh <gnaik>
Component: openbaoAssignee: Dave Dykstra <dwd>
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Description Ganesh 2026-10-13 09:56:29 UTC
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The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11, deeply nested brace groups cause expand_() to recurse once per nesting level at comma-member and single-set expansion sites, exhausting the native stack before output limits can apply and potentially terminating the Node.js process. expand_ performs uncontrolled recursion for nested brace alternatives and single-part sets. deeply nested brace groups supplied as an untrusted pattern. expand_ is affected. expand is affected. Comma members is affected. Single set is affected. native stack exhaustion during nested sub-expansion. process-terminating denial of service. This issue is fixed in versions 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11.

Comment 1 Dave Dykstra 2026-10-14 22:01:24 UTC
OpenBao does not have any server-side javascript so this vulnerability is not applicable