CVE-2019-14863

MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.10%

AngularJS Cross-site Scripting due to failure to sanitize `xlink.href` attributes

Published: 2/14/2020Modified: 11/20/2025

Also known as:GHSA-r5fx-8r73-v86cDEBIAN-CVE-2019-14863

Description

Versions of `angular` prior to 1.5.0-beta.1 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. The package fails to sanitize `xlink:href` attributes, which may allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in a victim's browser if the value is user-controlled. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 1.5.0-beta.1 or later.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/angular.jsfrom 0, < 1.5.3-2
Debian/angular.jsfrom 0, < 1.2.26-1+deb8u1
npm/angularfrom 0, < 1.5.0-beta.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14863
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14863
PATCHhttps://github.com/angular/angular.js
WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14863
WEBhttps://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/35a21532b73d5bd84b4325211c563e6a3e2dde82
WEBhttps://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/f33ce173c90736e349cf594df717ae3ee41e0f7a
WEBhttps://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/12524
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/npm:angular:20150807
WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1453