CVE-2018-25077: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

January 18, 2023 (updated January 20, 2023)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qjm7-55vv-3c5f
github.com/melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25077
vuldb.com/?id.218456

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