Brace expansion is a utility offering shell-like brace expansion capabilities within JavaScript environments, facilitating the generation of multiple strings from a single pattern. The core functionality remains consistent between versions 1.1.10 and 1.1.11, providing developers with a reliable tool for creating dynamic string lists. Both versions share identical dependencies, relying on concat-map and balanced-match for their operation, ensuring consistent performance and compatibility across projects already utilizing these dependencies.
The development dependencies, featuring tape and matcha for testing, are also unchanged, indicating a continued commitment to rigorous testing and code quality. The license remains MIT, offering developers broad flexibility in how they integrate and distribute the library.
The primary difference between versions 1.1.10 and 1.1.11 lies in a minor size increment. Version 1.1.11 presents a slightly larger unpacked size of 11059 bytes, compared to 1.1.10's 10964 bytes, a difference of approximately 95 bytes. this minor change might be attributed to internal code optimizations, documentation updates or the fixing of a small bug, but without additional details it's hard to assess. The releases were very close in time (less than 24 hours)
Developers should prioritize version 1.1.11 for its potential bug fixes and optimizations, while keeping in mind the minimal increase in size during deployment.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.1.11 of the package
brace-expansion Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability
A vulnerability was found in juliangruber brace-expansion up to 1.1.11/2.0.1/3.0.0/4.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function expand of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.1.12, 2.0.2, 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is a5b98a4f30d7813266b221435e1eaaf25a1b0ac5. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
