| Name | CVE-2023-26118 |
| Description | Versions of the package angular from 1.4.9 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4242-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1036694 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| angular.js (PTS) | bullseye | 1.8.2-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1.8.3-1+deb12u1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.8.3-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1.8.3-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - angular.js <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when fixed upstream)
[buster] - angular.js <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373046
PoC: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-inpur-url-validation-redos