angular/angular.js · Security
AngularJS Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4p4w-6hg8-63wx
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-2336
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 4.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Description
Improper sanitization of the value of the 'href' and 'xlink:href' attributes in '' SVG elements in AngularJS's 'ngSanitize' module allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions. This can lead to a form of Content Spoofing https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Content_Spoofing and also negatively affect the application's performance and behavior by using too large or slow-to-load images.
This issue affects AngularJS versions greater than or equal to 1.3.1.
Note: The AngularJS project is End-of-Life and will not receive any updates to address this issue. For more information see here https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status .
CWEs
- CWE-791 · Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2336 ↗
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/bNGYaXx/412a3a4218387479898912f60c269c6c ↗
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-2336 ↗
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-2336?angularjs-nes ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00005.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4p4w-6hg8-63wx ↗