CVE-2020-7676 Angular vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

What is CVE-2020-7676?

CVE-2020-7676 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in angular.js, published on 8 Jun 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

angular.js prior to 1.8.0 allows cross site scripting. The regex-based input HTML replacement may turn sanitized code into unsanitized one. Wrapping "<option>" elements in "<select>" ones changes parsing behavior, leading to possibly unsanitizing code.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7676?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including angular. It affects 1 product.

Products include Angularjs Angularjs.

How do I fix CVE-2020-7676?

Upgrade angular to 1.8.0 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2020-7676 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7676 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in angular.js

• CVE-2019-10768 angular Prototype Pollution vulnerability High 7.5
• CVE-2019-14863 AngularJS Cross-site Scripting due to failure to sanitize `xlink.href` attributes High 7.1
• CVE-2023-26116 angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the angular.copy() utility Medium 5.3
• CVE-2023-26117 angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the $resource service Medium 5.3
• CVE-2023-26118 angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7676, GHSA-mhp6-pxh8-r675, ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2020-7676, SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-570058, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7676.