CVE-2024-8373 (GCVE-0-2024-8373)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-09 14:48
Modified
2025-11-03 19:34
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-791 - Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements
Summary
Improper sanitization of the value of the [srcset] attribute in <source> HTML elements in AngularJS allows attackers to bypass common image source restrictions, which can also lead to a form of Content Spoofing https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Content_Spoofing . This issue affects all versions of AngularJS. Note: The AngularJS project is End-of-Life and will not receive any updates to address this issue. For more information see here https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status .
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google AngularJS Version: >=0.0.0   ≤
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