CVE-2018-25049: email-existence index.js redos

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

A vulnerability was found in email-existence. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The name of the patch is 0029ba71b6ad0d8ec0baa2ecc6256d038bdd9b56. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-216854 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

email-existence: all versions

References

https://github.com/nmanousos/email-existence/commit/0029ba71b6ad0d8ec0baa2ecc6256d038bdd9b56
https://github.com/nmanousos/email-existence/pull/37
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216854
https://vuldb.com/?id.216854
https://github.com/nmanousos/email-existence/commit/0029ba71b6ad0d8ec0baa2ecc6256d038bdd9b56
https://github.com/nmanousos/email-existence/pull/37
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216854
https://vuldb.com/?id.216854

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