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angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 30, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 3, 2023

Package

npm angular (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.8.3

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of the package angular are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the element due to the usage of an insecure regular expression in the input[url] functionality. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by a large carefully-crafted input, which can result in catastrophic backtracking.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 30, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 30, 2023
Reviewed Apr 3, 2023
Last updated Nov 3, 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-2023-26118

GHSA ID

GHSA-qwqh-hm9m-p5hr

Source code

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