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angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

npm angular (npm)

Affected versions

>= 1.7.0

Patched versions

None

Description

AngularJS lets users write client-side web applications. The package angular after 1.7.0 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) by providing a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat() of NUMBER_FORMATS.PATTERNS[1].posPre with a very high value.

Note:

  1. This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained.
  2. The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Reviewed May 4, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25844

GHSA ID

GHSA-m2h2-264f-f486

Source code

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