🛡️ CVE-2018-25077 — mel-spintax

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1333 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

mel-spintax has Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

A vulnerability was found in melnaron mel-spintax. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file lib/spintax.js. The manipulation of the argument text leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The name of the patch is 37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218456.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-25077 is classified as CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. A regular expression backtracks catastrophically on crafted input, consuming CPU out of proportion to input size.

Affected software

CVE-2018-25077 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mel-spintax

Timeline and source

Published on 18 January 2023 and last revised on 22 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
vuldb.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-1333
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-01-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mel-spintax — —

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