CVE-2023-26116

Publication date 30 March 2023

Last updated 14 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
angular.js 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.25.04.1
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was deferred [2023-05-15]
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2023-05-15]
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was deferred [2023-05-15]
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2023-05-15]
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.5.10-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.2.28-1ubuntu2+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

mdeslaur

There is no upstream fix for this issue as of 2023-05-15

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7958-1
    • AngularJS vulnerabilities
    • 14 January 2026

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