CVE-2024-21490

Publication date 10 February 2024

Last updated 14 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

This affects versions of the package angular from 1.3.0. A regular expression used to split the value of the ng-srcset directive is vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking. With large carefully-crafted input, this can result in catastrophic backtracking and cause a denial of service. **Note:** This package is EOL and will not receive any updates to address this issue. Users should migrate to [@angular/core](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/core).

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
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.5.10-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7958-1
AngularJS vulnerabilities
14 January 2026