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Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2023 · Assigned by snyk

CVE-2023-26117

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 1.0.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the $resource service 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-2023-26117
Debian:13angular.js1.8.3-2DEBIAN-CVE-2023-26117
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSangular.js1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-26117
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSangular.js1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-26117
npmangularno fix listedGHSA-2qqx-w9hr-q5gx

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a angular 1.0.0 – before *
n/a org.webjars.bower:angular 1.0.0 – before *
n/a org.webjars.npm:angular 1.0.0 – 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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