CVE-2020-7676

angular.js prior to 1.8.0 allows cross site scripting. The regex-based input HTML replacement may turn sanitized code into unsanitized one. Wrapping "<option>" elements in "<select>" ones changes parsing behavior, leading to possibly unsanitizing code.

Published: 2020-06-08 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2020-7676 is rated Moderate Risk (51/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.14%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.58% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-7676

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.56% 2.14% +1.58%
2 2026-03-04 0.20% 0.56% +0.36%
3 2026-03-01 0.20%

Full EPSS history (42 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2020-7676

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.3 2.7 [email protected]
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2020-7676

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2020-7676

GHSA-mhp6-pxh8-r675 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: npm — Angular vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

OS Trackers for CVE-2020-7676

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2020-7676 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (angular.js), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-7676
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7676
ubuntu low CVE-2020-7676 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (angular.js), 17 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 11, needed 3, DNE 1, ignored 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7676

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2020-7676

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
angularjs angularjs < 1.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:angularjs:angularjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2020-7676

URL Tags
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/17028%2C
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r198985c02829ba8285ed4f9b1de54a33b5f31b08bb38ac51fc86961b%40%3Cozone-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
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https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANGULAR-570058 Third Party Advisory
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