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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package angular.js  (opens in a new tab)

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4.93% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ANGULARJS-11735592
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2022
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Introduced: 1 May 2022

CVE-2022-25844  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream angular.js package and not the angular.js package as distributed by Debian.

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 Note: 1) This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained. 2) The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.

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