Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting angularjs package, versions [,1.6.3)


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Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-ANGULARJS-10771609
  • published17 Jul 2025
  • disclosed10 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2017

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade angularjs to version 1.6.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to $sanitize in sanitizer being unable to traverse the HTML because one or more of the elements in the HTML have been "clobbered". This could be a sign that the payload contains code attempting to cause a DoS attack on the browser.

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version 3.1