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Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2023 · Assigned by snyk

CVE-2023-26116

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity regular-expression denial of service in angular. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Versions of the package angular from 1.2.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the angular.copy() utility function due to the usage of an insecure regular expression. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by a large carefully-crafted input, which can result in catastrophic backtracking.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12angular.js1.8.3-1+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26116
Debian:13angular.js1.8.3-2DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26116
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSangular.js1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-26116
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSangular.js1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-26116
npmangularno fix listedGHSA-2vrf-hf26-jrp5

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a angular 1.2.21 – before *
n/a org.webjars.bower:angular 1.2.21 – before *
n/a org.webjars.npm:angular 1.2.23 – before *
n/a org.webjars.bowergithub.angular:angular 0 – before *

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P

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