MEDIUM5.3
GHSA-qwqh-hm9m-p5hr
angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element
Details
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.
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Affected packages
npm/angular
Introduced in:
0No fixed version published yet for angular (npm). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
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]