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CVE-2023-26116
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2023-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-1333
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.
Affected products
- angularjs: from 1.2.21 through 1.8.3
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
References
- 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://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html
- 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://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322
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