GHSA-qwqh-hm9m-p5hr
angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2023-26118
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
All versions of the package angular are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the <input type="url"> 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.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| npm · angular | introduced 0, last affected 1.8.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26118 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/angular/angular.js PACKAGE
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html WEB
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ WEB
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K WEB
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406326 WEB
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406328 WEB
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406327 WEB
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373046 WEB
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-inpur-url-validation-redos WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |