Security advisory

{
  "id": "2ce6c776cff81a011753c929d76271fff12619d904081114e2b9b6eb4a811e65",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-26116",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-26116",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-26116",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-26116",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-26116",
        "GHSA-2vrf-hf26-jrp5"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/angular/angular.js",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "cd9afd99615fff72e87971700f1346525ba76c59"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "cf16b241e1c61c22a820ed8211bc2332ede88e62"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:angularjs:angularjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.2.21"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.8.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-26116.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.800215504Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQWJLE5WE33WNMA54XSJIDXBRK2KL3XJ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UDKFLKJ6VZKL52AFVW2OVZRMJWHMW55K/",
        "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-5406320",
        "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-5406322",
        "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-5406321",
        "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-3373044",
        "https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-vulnerability-angular-copy-redos",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/26xxx/CVE-2023-26116.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26116"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-1333"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "snyk",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "1.2.21"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "*"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "1.2.21"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "*"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "1.2.23"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "*"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "*"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandardRange"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/26xxx/CVE-2023-26116.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-26116",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 495820,
  "published_at": "2023-03-30T05:00:03.402+00:00"
}