CVE-2018-25049 (GCVE-0-2018-25049)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-27 08:10 – Updated: 2025-04-11 16:47
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
3 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a email-existence Affected: n/a
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