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CVE-2018-25077: melnaron mel-spintax spintax.js redos

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

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.

Affected products

• melnaron mel-spintax: before 2018-06-02 — fixed in 2018-06-02

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: melnaron mel-spintax 2018-06-02. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218456
• https://vuldb.com/?id.218456
• https://github.com/melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218456
• https://vuldb.com/?id.218456

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