CVE-2022-25844

Publication date 1 May 2022

Last updated 14 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The package angular after 1.7.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) by providing a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat() of NUMBER_FORMATS.PATTERNS[1].posPre with a very high value. **Note:** 1) This package has been deprecated and is no longer maintained. 2) The vulnerable versions are 1.7.0 and higher.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
angular.js	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.25.04.1
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7958-1
AngularJS vulnerabilities
14 January 2026