Quick answers
- Is CVE-2023-26118 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2023-26118 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2023-26118?
- Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 30 March 2023.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- angular (npm) SEMVER:introduced=0,last_affected=1.8.3.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2023-26118?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2023-26118 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2023-26118?
- Check whether you run angular (npm) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This vulnerability is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw affecting Angular's input[url] validation component. The vulnerable code uses an insecure regular expression that performs catastrophic backtracking when processing specially crafted input strings. The attack is network-reachable and requires no authentication or user interaction beyond submitting a malicious URL to a form field using the type="url" attribute. An attacker can trigger excessive CPU consumption, causing the application to hang or become unresponsive. All versions of Angular through 1.8.3 are affected.
Affected products
- Google Angular through 1.8.3
Identifiers
- CVE-2023-26118
- GHSA-qwqh-hm9m-p5hr
Timeline
- 2023-03-30: disclosed: Published in GitHub Advisory Database
- 2023-03-30: advisory: NVD published CVE-2023-26118