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GHSA-QJM7-55VV-3C5F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-01-18 03:31 – Updated: 2026-02-17 22:04

Summary

mel-spintax has Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Details

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.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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  "modified": "2026-02-17T22:04:14Z",
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}

CVE-2018-25077 (GCVE-0-2018-25077)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-18 00:58 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:33

Title

melnaron mel-spintax spintax.js redos

Summary

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.

Severity

3.5 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

3.5 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

VulDB mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.218456	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218456	signaturepermissions-required
https://github.com/melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37…	patch

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
melnaron	mel-spintax	Affected: n/a

Credits

VulDB GitHub Commit Analyzer

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