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fix: resolve CVE-2026-14257 in brace-expansion - #278

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What does this PR do?

Fix high severity vulnerability CVE-2026-14257 in brace-expansion.

Advisory: brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded expansion length causing an out-of-memory process crash
Vulnerable versions: <1.1.17
Patched versions: >=1.1.17
Advisory URL: GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg

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N/A - dependency update only.

What issues does this PR fix or reference?

Fixes CVE-2026-14257: brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded expansion length causing an out-of-memory process crash

How to test this PR?

Run pnpm audit and verify CVE-2026-14257 is no longer reported

Upgrade brace-expansion to satisfy >=1.1.17
Advisory: GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Florent Benoit <fbenoit@redhat.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The package configuration replaces the broad brace-expansion override with explicit overrides for major versions 1 and 5.

Changes

Dependency override update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Explicit brace-expansion overrides
package.json
Replaces brace-expansion@<1.1.14 with separate overrides for brace-expansion@^1 and brace-expansion@^5.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1d4bc

This is a localized dependency-only update intended to use the patched brace-expansion version; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5
✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the vulnerability fix and matches the dependency update in the changeset.
Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately explains the vulnerability, patched version, dependency-only scope, and validation steps.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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