braces stack overflow in recursive AST walkers (CVE-2026-93687)

high severity · published 2026-09-18

An attacker can feed a deeply nested brace pattern that stays within the character limit and exhaust the call stack, crashing the Node.js process with an uncaught RangeError. This is a denial of service, not data theft.

CVE: CVE-2026-93687

Source: NVD

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