vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7958-1 (CVE-2023-26116): AngularJS vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 30, 2023
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jan 15, 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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libjs-angularjs
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