CVE-2022-25844 (GCVE-0-2022-25844)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-01 15:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:26
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
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 **Note:** 1) This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained. 2) The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:F
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
snyk CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 60/100 over 17 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a angular Affected: next of 1.7.0 , < unspecified (custom)
Date Public
2022-05-01 00:00
Credits
Michael Prentice
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