CVE-2023-26118

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 1.4.9 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 products

angularjs: from 1.4.9 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-5406326
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406328
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406327
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373046
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-inpur-url-validation-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-5406326
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406328

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