Inefficient regular expression complexity in AngularJS - CVE-2023-26117

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Inefficient regular expression complexity in AngularJS - CVE-2023-26117

Published: August 10, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79318
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26117
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
AngularJS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input passed via the $resource service. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2023-26117

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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