Vulnerability detected in dependent library Braces (CWE-400)

[yayatitech]

Checkmarx reported vulnerability with one of the dependent libraries (braces@3.0.2).

Category

CWE-400 | Uncontrolled resource consumption

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.

Steps to reproduce

Run checkmarx scan on any nodejs project with pm2 dependency

Dependency tree

[boxexchanger]

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https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BRACES-6838727
micromatch/braces#35