Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting org.webjars.bower:angular package, versions [,1.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-479436
  • published 23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed 7 Jun 2014
  • credit Jann Horn

Introduced: 7 Jun 2014

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How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.bower:angular to version 1.3.0 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.bower:angular is a bower WebJar for angular.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. $parse allowed arbitrary code execution via Angular expressions under some very specific conditions. The only applications affected by these vulnerabilities are those that match all of the following conditions:

  • Application mixes server-side and client-side templating
  • The server-side templating contains XSS vulnerabilities
  • The vulnerabilities in the server-side templating are being guarded by server-side XSS filters or on the client-side via CSP
  • The server-side XSS vulnerabilities can be used to augment the client-side template processed by Angular Applications not meeting all of the conditions are not vulnerable.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
3.7 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None