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CVE-2026-50178

HIGH
8.7
CVSS 4.0
Description
The Angular Language Service VS Code Extension provides a rich editing experience for Angular templates. the client-side Angular Language Service VS Code extension configures the tooltip Markdown renderer with the isTrusted: true option (located in client/src/client.ts). This setting instructs VS Code to trust all rendered content it receives, which enables active elements such as command: URIs. However, the background Angular Language Server process fails to escape or sanitize brackets, raw links, and control characters from JSDoc strings before forwarding the hover Markdown content (located in server/src/handlers/hover.ts and server/src/text_render.ts). An attacker can leverage this behavior by crafting a project TypeScript or JavaScript file (or a third-party npm package dependency) containing a malicious JSDoc tooltip with an embedded active command link. When a developer hovers over the target symbol to render the tooltip and clicks the malicious link, the IDE executes the command sequence directly on the developer's host machine. Prior to 21.2.4, This vulnerability is fixed in 21.2.4.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-50178
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-06-03 22:05 UTC
Published
2026-06-22 15:20 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-22 16:04 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-79
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Gen…
Vendor / Product
angular / angular
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

8.7 HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
angular angular < 21.2.4
angular Angular.ng-template < 21.2.4
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-79 cna CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-94 cna CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
8.7 HIGH 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References (1)
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