GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-2vrf-hf26-jrp5 angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the angular.copy() utility
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-26116
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- angular
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
- Reviewed
- 2023-04-03
Affected packages
• npm angular: <= 1.8.3 (no fix yet)
Description
All versions of the package angular 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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-26116 Versions of the package angular from 1.2.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the angular.copy() utility… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26116 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/[email protected]/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K web
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320 web
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322 web
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321 web
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044 web
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos web