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High · 7.5 Public exploit CVE-2024-21490 EUVD-2024-0512GHSA-4w4v-5hc9-xrr2

angular vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking

Published Feb 10, 2024 · Updated Jul 6, 2026 · Assigned by snyk

Package: angular Package: angular.js Package: angular.js Package: org.webjars.bower:angular Package: org.webjars.npm:angular Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Maven Ecosystem: npm Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

This affects versions of the package angular from 1.3.0; versions of the package angularjs 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](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/core).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— angular 1.3.0 —
— org.webjars.bower:angular 1.3.0 —
— org.webjars.npm:angular 1.3.0 —
— angularjs 1.3.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 angular.js 1.8.3-2 —
Debian 12 angular.js 1.8.3-1+deb12u1 —
Debian 11 angular.js 1.8.3-1+deb12u1~deb11u1 DLA-4242-1

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS angular.js 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS angular.js 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1 —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS angular.js 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS angular.js 1.5.10-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • RoninForge/roninforge-angularjs-migration ★ 0 · May 19, 2026

    AngularJS 1.x -> Angular 18 migration guidance for GitHub Copilot. Source-of-truth repo for github/awesome-copilot/instructions/angularjs-to-angular-18.instructions.md. 62 LLM regressions across 3 mo…

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.webjars.bower:angular >= 1.3.0, <= 1.8.3 — GHSA-4w4v-5hc9-xrr2
Maven org.webjars.npm:angular >= 1.3.0, <= 1.8.3 — GHSA-4w4v-5hc9-xrr2
npm angular >= 1.3.0, <= 1.8.3 — GHSA-4w4v-5hc9-xrr2

Advisories 2

References