Vulnerability in Melnaron Mel-Spintax
CVE-2018-25077
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.
Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.009 (57.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: +0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- vuldb.com/ (Permissions Required, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- vuldb.com/ (signature, Permissions Required, permissions-required, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, patch)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-25077?
- CVE-2018-25077 is a low-severity vulnerability in Melnaron Mel-Spintax, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2023-01-18.
- How severe is CVE-2018-25077?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.