CVE-2024-4068 Information

Description

The NPM package braces fails to limit the number of characters it can handle which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In lib/parse.js if a malicious user sends \imbalanced braces\ as input the parsing will enter a loop which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually the JavaScript heap limit is reached and the program will crash.

Reference

https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4068/ https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35 https://github.com/micromatch/braces/blob/98414f9f1fabe021736e26836d8306d5de747e0d/lib/parse.js#L308