angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the angular.copy() utility

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.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.8.3

References

• GHSA-2vrf-hf26-jrp5
• security.snyk.io
• stackblitz.com
• lists.fedoraproject.org
• lists.debian.org
• CVE-2023-26116
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Angular vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting - CVE-2020-7676
• matrix-js-sdk has insufficient MXC URI validation which allows client-side path traversal - CVE-2024-50336
• AngularJS allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions (GHSA-mqm9-c95h-x2p6) - CVE-2024-8373
• AngularJS allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions - CVE-2024-8372

Tags:

npm

angular