CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-21490

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Feb 10, 2024 | Modified: Oct 10, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

This affects versions of the package angular from 1.3.0. A regular expression used to split the value of the ng-srcset directive is vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking. With large carefully-crafted input, this can result in catastrophic backtracking and cause a denial of service. Note: This package is EOL and will not receive any updates to address this issue. Users should migrate to @angular/core.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Angular.js Angularjs 1.3.0 (including) *
Angular.js Ubuntu bionic *
Angular.js Ubuntu devel *
Angular.js Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Angular.js Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Angular.js Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Angular.js Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Angular.js Ubuntu focal *
Angular.js Ubuntu jammy *
Angular.js Ubuntu mantic *
Angular.js Ubuntu noble *
Angular.js Ubuntu oracular *
Angular.js Ubuntu trusty *
Angular.js Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

	  Attackers can create crafted inputs that
	  intentionally cause the regular expression to use
	  excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU
	  consumption to spike.

Potential Mitigations

References