Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-26116

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 30 March 2023

Published
30 March 2023
Modified
20 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0027 50.9th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-26116 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Angularjs Angularjs. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 49.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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,…

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which can result in catastrophic backtracking.

CWE(s)
CWE-1333

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

angularjs
angularjs
1.2.21 — 1.8.3
fedoraproject
fedora
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Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References