CVE-2023-26116 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting AngularJS versions 1.2.21 and later, including those distributed by Fedora. The flaw resides in the angular.copy() function, which uses an insecure regular expression susceptible to catastrophic backtracking when processing large, specially crafted inputs. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (MEDIUM), indicating a low-impact denial of service attack that can be executed remotely without user interaction or authentication. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.2.21, <= 1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:angularjs:angularjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
38CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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