Issue with FileAssets in CDK CodePipelines

[hahmed671]

I have a number of CDK CodePipelines that started to fail with the following error in the FileAsset actions in the Assets stage . My pipelines have been working just fine up until June 11, 2025. Now all my CDK pipelines have this same error:

[Container] 2025/06/11 22:55:22.701109 Entering phase BUILD
[Container] 2025/06/11 22:55:22.702544 Running command cdk-assets --path "assembly-JarvisDeploymentPipelineStack-ServerLocationStage/JarvisDeploymentPipelineStackServerLocationStageplatformiotsrv6C64B7C6.assets.json" --verbose publish "9715d3c35f2fe5f2d04917ebe9ba0ebd164e787312422dce349432a59e35ceb8:050451359510-ca-central-1"
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/minimatch/dist/commonjs/index.js:7
const brace_expansion_1 = __importDefault(require("brace-expansion"));
                                          ^

Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/brace-expansion/index.js from /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/minimatch/dist/commonjs/index.js not supported.
Instead change the require of /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/brace-expansion/index.js in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/minimatch/dist/commonjs/index.js to a dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules.
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/minimatch/dist/commonjs/index.js:7:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/node_modules/glob/dist/commonjs/index.js:9:21)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/lib/private/archive.js:6:14)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/lib/private/handlers/files.js:10:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/lib/private/handlers/index.js:5:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/lib/publishing.js:5:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/lib/index.js:17:14)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/bin/list.js:4:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/bin/cdk-assets.js:4:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cdk-assets/bin/cdk-assets:2:1) {
  code: 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM'
}

Node.js v18.20.6

[Container] 2025/06/11 22:55:22.865857 Command did not exit successfully cdk-assets --path "assembly-JarvisDeploymentPipelineStack-ServerLocationStage/JarvisDeploymentPipelineStackServerLocationStageplatformiotsrv6C64B7C6.assets.json" --verbose publish "9715d3c35f2fe5f2d04917ebe9ba0ebd164e787312422dce349432a59e35ceb8:050451359510-ca-central-1" exit status 1
[Container] 2025/06/11 22:55:22.872117 Phase complete: BUILD State: FAILED
[Container] 2025/06/11 22:55:22.872137 Phase context status code: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command: cdk-assets --path "assembly-JarvisDeploymentPipelineStack-ServerLocationStage/JarvisDeploymentPipelineStackServerLocationStageplatformiotsrv6C64B7C6.assets.json" --verbose publish "9715d3c35f2fe5f2d04917ebe9ba0ebd164e787312422dce349432a59e35ceb8:050451359510-ca-central-1". Reason: exit status 1

This is what happens in the INSTALL Phase

[Container] 2025/06/11 22:54:56.251186 Entering phase INSTALL
[Container] 2025/06/11 22:54:56.288426 Running command npm install -g cdk-assets@latest
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'glob@11.0.2',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '20 || >=22' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.6', npm: '10.9.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'jackspeak@4.1.1',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '20 || >=22' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.6', npm: '10.9.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'minimatch@10.0.2',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '20 || >=22' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.6', npm: '10.9.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'path-scurry@2.0.0',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '20 || >=22' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.6', npm: '10.9.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'lru-cache@11.1.0',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '20 || >=22' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.6', npm: '10.9.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }

It's not clear to me what could be the issue. It does not seem like the problem is something to do with CDK code changes that I've done. The issue might be an upstream dependency issue. I have been wanting to install an earlier version of cdk-asssets instead of latest but I don't know of a way to do that with CDK.

I am wondering if there is any thing that can be done to address this issue?

[hahmed671]

Looks like this issue is being tracked in aws/aws-cdk-cli#601 and that I am not the only one that is having this issue.

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