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CVE-2018-25077

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-25077 is a vulnerability affecting melnaron mel-spintax, specifically within the lib/spintax.js file, where manipulating the 'text' argument can lead to inefficient regular expression complexity. This issue is rated as High severity (CVSS 7.5), indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction, potentially causing a denial of service (availability impact). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2018-06-02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mel-spintax_project:mel-spintax:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.5LOW

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 30th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: mel-spintaxFixed in: 1.0.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-qjm7-55vv-3c5fmedium

mel-spintax has Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Jan 18, 2023

References

github.com / melnaron/mel-spintax/commit/37767617846e27b87b63004e30216e8f919637d3
PatchThird Party Advisory
vuldb.com
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
vuldb.com
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory