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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2019-14863 json

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

published 2020-01-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r5fx-8r73-v86c , EUVD-2020-0312

cvss
7.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a vulnerability in all angular versions before 1.5.0-beta.0, where after escaping the context of the web application, the web application delivers data to its users along with other trusted dynamic content, without validating it.

Patch / fix

  • npm angular 1.5.0-beta.1
  • angular.js Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.3-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14863

  • angular.js Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.2.28-1ubuntu2+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14863

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14863 updated cvss 7.1

angular: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to no proper sanitization of xlink:href attributes

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm angular
<1.5.0-beta.1
1.5.0-beta.1

Affected products

  • Red Hat angular:

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.