Medium severity · published Jun 22, 2026
CVE-2026-54267
Angular Client Hydration DOM Clobbering & Response-Cache Poisoning
6.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 22.0.1, 21.2.17, and 20.3.25, to optimize client-side bootstrap in Server-Side Rendered (SSR) environments, Angular supports Hydration via provideClientHydration(). During SSR, Angular serializes the application's runtime state (such as cached HttpClient responses) and outputs it into the HTML stream as a <script> tag with a predictable identifier. During client bootstrap, Angular recovers this state by looking up the element via document.getElementById('ng-state') and parsing its text content. Because the DOM element lookup for the state container is predictable and relies solely on the ID selector (ng-state), it is susceptible to DOM Clobbering. If the application binds untrusted user input or CMS content to element properties such as id (e.g., <div [id]="userInput"> or <a id="ng-state">) before the genuine <script> tag is parsed by the browser, the attacker-controlled element takes precedence in the DOM lookup. During hydration, when Angular calls document.getElementById('ng-state'), the browser returns the attacker's clobbered element. Angular then attempts to parse the text content or attributes of this clobbered element as JSON. This vulnerability is fixed in 22.0.1, 21.2.17, and 20.3.25.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
angular · angular
>= 22.0.0-next.0 < 22.0.1; >= 21.0.0-next.0 < 21.2.17; >= 20.0.0-next.0 < 20.3.25; <= 19.2.25 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54267
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54267
Patch
https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/6bde84fa8e6a5770b54040fbbc9bf10d5d0386fa
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/69064
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/angular/angular/security/advisories/GHSA-rgjc-h3x7-9mwg
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