Medium

angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)

  • Disclosed: 03.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

AngularJS lets users write client-side web applications. The package angular after 1.7.0 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) by providing a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat() of NUMBER_FORMATS.PATTERNS[1].posPre with a very high value.

Note:

  1. This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained.
  2. The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package angular >= 1.7.0 no fix

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1333, CWE-770
Platform
npm
Package
angular
Disclosed
03.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-m2h2-264f-f486 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: angular

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (15) in the archive
Total entries
15
First → latest
06.2019 06.2026
Without a fix
10
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 3
  • Medium 9
  • Low 3

Disclosures per year

  1. 2019: 2
  2. 2020: 3
  3. 2021: 0
  4. 2022: 2
  5. 2023: 3
  6. 2024: 3
  7. 2025: 1
  8. 2026: 1
Severity:
  1. High · 7.6 CVE-2026-11998 >= 1.2.0-rc.3, <= 1.8.3 no fix
  2. High · 7.5 CVE-2024-21490 >= 1.3.0, <= 1.8.3 no fix
  3. angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) this entry
    Medium · 5.3 CVE-2022-25844 >= 1.7.0 no fix
  4. High · 7.5 CVE-2019-10768 < 1.7.9 1.7.9

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