CVE-2023-26117: angularjs
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-26117 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in angularjs. EPSS estimates a 1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 5 public exploits are recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 2Timeline
- 30-03-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-11-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Versions of the package angular from 1.0.0 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.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P
- OSV · NpmEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P
- NVDNIST5.3MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS trend
Probability
1.70%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
77%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.70% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
5 foundExploit Reference (security.snyk.io)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (security.snyk.io)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (security.snyk.io)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Angularjs1 product
- angularjs≥ 1.0.0, ≤ 1.8.3
Chainguard1 product
- solr< 9.10.0-r0
Debian1 product
- angular.js< 1.8.3-1+deb12u1 | < 1.8.3-2
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL38
Npm1 product
- angular≤ 1.8.3
Ubuntu1 product
- angular.js< 1.2.28-1ubuntu2+esm1 | < 1.5.10-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1 | < 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
Wolfi1 product
- solr< 9.10.0-r0
7 vendors · 7 products
References
17 links- stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-resource-trailing-slashes-redosREPORTWEBExploitThird Party Advisory
