angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the $resource service

Description

All versions of the package angular are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the $resource service 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-2qqx-w9hr-q5gx
security.snyk.io
stackblitz.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.debian.org
CVE-2023-26117
CWE-1333
CAPEC-310
OWASP 2021-A6

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