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CVE-2022-25844
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Medium5.3EPSS 4.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- snyk
Description
The package angular after 1.7.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) by providing a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat() of NUMBER_FORMATS.PATTERNS[1].posPre with a very high value. **Note:** 1) This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained. 2) The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:F |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
- CWE-1333 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-1333 and its CVEs
Affected products
angular
- affected next of 1.7.0 – < unspecified
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmangularGHSA-m2h2-264f-f486 (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-2772735 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-2772736 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2772737 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBANGULAR-2772738 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://stackblitz.com/edit/angularjs-material-blank-zvtdvb (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220629-0009/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-e016e6f445 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-edf635cf39 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m2h2-264f-f486 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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