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braces 3.0.3 vulnerability

braces 3.0.3 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical), and no fixed version has been released yet.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Bash-like brace expansion, implemented in JavaScript. Safer than other brace expansion libs, with complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces specification, without sacrificing speed.”

Known vulnerabilities
1
1 rated high or critical
Released
May 21, 2024
The latest release
Downloads last week
143.2M
85% of braces downloads
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
3.8/10
micromatch/braces (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
3 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

3.0.3 is the latest release of braces.

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Findings

  • CriticalVulnerability

    CVE-2026-93687 in braces 3.0.3

    EPSS: top 46%

    braces vulnerable to stack-exhaustion denial of service through deeply nested patterns

    3.0.3No fixed version yetView advisory, source: OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
  • LowOpenSSF Scorecard

    micromatch/braces scores 3.8/10 on OpenSSF Scorecard

    Weakest checks: Not actively maintained (Maintained 0/10); No branch protection (Branch-Protection 0/10); Over-privileged CI tokens (Token-Permissions 0/10). A low score means weaker upstream security practices, not a known vulnerability.

    Scorecard, source: OpenSSF Scorecard (opens in a new tab)

Every advisory for braces 3.0.3

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2026-93687 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xmEPSS: top 46%

    braces vulnerable to stack-exhaustion denial of service through deeply nested patterns

    No fixed version listed yet. Published Sep 18, 2026.

Who is still on a vulnerable braces

100% of last week’s 169.1M braces downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly braces 3.0.3, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.