CVE-2026-45149: brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
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The max option was being applied too late:
When expanding a single large numeric range like {1..10000000}, the sequence generation loop generates all 10 million intermediate elements before the max limit is applied With max=10, the output is correctly limited to 10 items, but the process still allocates ~505 MB and spends ~800ms building the full intermediate array.
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