CVE-2023-26116
MEDIUM5.3EPSS 0.32%angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the angular.copy() utility
Published: 3/30/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Versions of the package angular from 1.2.21 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/angular.jsfrom 0, < 1.8.3-1+deb12u1~deb11u1
- npm/angularfrom 0, <= 1.8.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26116
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-26116
- PATCHhttps://github.com/angular/angular.js
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K
- WEBhttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320
- WEBhttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322
- WEBhttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321
- WEBhttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044
- WEBhttps://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos