CVE-2023-26118: angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element

March 30, 2023 (updated April 4, 2024)

All versions of the package angular is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the element due to the usage of an insecure regular expression in the input[url] functionality. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by a large carefully-crafted input, which can result in catastrophic backtracking.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwqh-hm9m-p5hr
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26118
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373046
stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-inpur-url-validation-redos

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