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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2023-26118

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

All versions of the package angular 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.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published