CVE-2026-88057
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 20.3.28, 21.2.20, and 22.1.0, Angular's compiler and runtime in @angular/core and @angular/compiler could omit or select an incorrect sanitizer for security-sensitive directive host bindings because SecurityContext was derived from the declaring directive or component selector rather than the concrete host element. The mismatch is reachable through hostDirectives composition, inherited HostBinding declarations, createComponent with a custom hostElement or dynamic directives, SVG/MathML namespace elements, and tag-neutral selectors such as :not(...). Attacker-controlled href, src, action, xlink:href, or data values can therefore reach DOM attributes without Angular's built-in sanitizer and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the user's browser context. Applications unable to upgrade can use DomSanitizer.sanitize with SecurityContext.URL before assignment or restrict inputs to validated HTTP and HTTPS URL schemes. This issue is fixed in versions 20.3.28, 21.2.20, and 22.1.0.
What this means for your business
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 34% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 5.3
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-10
- Last modified
- 2026-09-11
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/2f96c8020f85ccb715a76de4b79a0c680c2c7264
- https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/6afe6fa781c2f0931f0aedd729b9884a8fe212ee
- https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/6caa298dee58319b2d674dc91364e26ffe3ecb2b
- https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/69550
- https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/69558
- https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/v20.3.28
- https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/v21.2.20
- https://github.com/angular/angular/releases/tag/v22.1.0
- https://github.com/angular/angular/security/advisories/GHSA-hh8m-fm6v-7cvg