Vulnerabilities/

angular vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking

Severity:
High

Description

This affects versions of the package angular from 1.3.0. A regular expression used to split the value of the ng-srcset directive is vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking. With a large carefully-crafted input, this can result in catastrophic backtracking and cause a denial of service.

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No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

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npm
angular
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