CVE-2022-25869 Angular (deprecated package) Cross-site Scripting

What is CVE-2022-25869?

CVE-2022-25869 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in AngularJS.Core, published on 15 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

All versions of the package angular; all versions of the package angularjs.core; all versions of the package angularjs are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to insecure page caching in the Internet Explorer browser, which allows interpolation of <textarea> elements.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-25869?

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

Products include Angularjs Angularjs.

How do I fix CVE-2022-25869?

No fix published yet.

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-2022-25869 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-25869 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in AngularJS.Core

• 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-2020-7676 Angular vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Medium 5.4
• 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

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-25869, GHSA-prc3-vjfx-vhm9, MINI-wvhc-jwq9-f67p, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-25869.