CVE-2023-26116
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Mar 30, 2023
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 20, 2023
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P | snyk |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
angularn/a |
|
org.webjars.bower:angularn/a |
|
org.webjars.npm:angularn/a |
|
org.webjars.bowergithub.angular:angularn/a |
|
References
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html
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