Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-26118

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 0.0052 67.3th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-26118 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 32.7% 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 1.4.9 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the <input type="url"> element due to the usage of an insecure regular expression in the input[url] functionality. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by…

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a large carefully-crafted input, 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
1.4.9 — 1.8.3
fedoraproject
fedora
38

Mitigating Controls

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

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