Vulnerability detected in library Braces

[Amousy]

Reproduction

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System Info

Cxab55612e-3a56 | Uncontrolled resource consumption

Used Package Manager

yarn

Expected Behavior

Scan without any error.

Actual Behavior

SCA Alerts:
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.

More details:
https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/Cxab55612e-3a56/