Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting angular package, versions <1.5.0-beta.2


Severity

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10

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  • Snyk IDnpm:angular:20150909
  • published23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed8 Sept 2015
  • creditIgor Minar

Introduced: 8 Sep 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade angular to version 1.5.0-beta.2 or higher.

Overview

angular is a package that lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It also lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). This error occurs when $sanitize sanitizer tries to check the input for possible mXSS payload and the verification errors due to the input mutating indefinitely. This could be a sign that the payload contains code exploiting an mXSS vulnerability in the browser.

mXSS attack exploit browser bugs that cause some browsers parse a certain html strings into DOM, which once serialized doesn't match the original input. These browser bugs can be exploited by attackers to create payload which looks harmless to sanitizers, but due to mutations caused by the browser are turned into dangerous code once processed after sanitization.

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