Angular up to 18.2.14/19.2.22/20.3.21/21.2.14 helper information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Angular up to 18.2.14/19.2.22/20.3.21/21.2.14. This impacts the function helper. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-50169. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Angular up to 18.2.14/19.2.22/20.3.21/21.2.14 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function helper. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 22.0.0-rc.2, 21.2.15 20.3.22, and 19.2.23, an issue in the @angular/service-worker package compromises the integrity of request-policy enforcement during request reconstruction. When the Angular Service Worker intercepts network requests for matched assets, it reconstructs a new Request object using an internal helper function. During this reconstruction process, the helper function strips the strict, client-defined request redirect policy configuration (such as redirect: 'error'), falling back to the browser's default 'follow' strategy. If the target web application makes client-side requests with a strict policy (e.g., expecting a network error instead of automatically following redirects), the service worker will bypass this instruction and automatically follow HTTP 3xx redirects to other destinations. This acts as an unintended proxy/intermediary ("Confused Deputy") and can result in cookie/credential exposure or same-origin session-restricted data leakage if public dynamic routes redirect to sensitive routes. This vulnerability is fixed in 22.0.0-rc.2, 21.2.15, 20.3.22, and 19.2.23.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-50169 since 06/03/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 19.2.23, 20.3.22, 21.2.15 or 22.0.0-rc.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• JavaScript Library

Name

• Angular

Version

• 18.2.0
• 18.2.1
• 18.2.2
• 18.2.3
• 18.2.4
• 18.2.5
• 18.2.6
• 18.2.7
• 18.2.8
• 18.2.9
• 18.2.10
• 18.2.11
• 18.2.12
• 18.2.13
• 18.2.14
• 19.2.0
• 19.2.1
• 19.2.2
• 19.2.3
• 19.2.4
• 19.2.5
• 19.2.6
• 19.2.7
• 19.2.8
• 19.2.9
• 19.2.10
• 19.2.11
• 19.2.12
• 19.2.13
• 19.2.14
• 19.2.15
• 19.2.16
• 19.2.17
• 19.2.18
• 19.2.19
• 19.2.20
• 19.2.21
• 19.2.22
• 20.3.0
• 20.3.1
• 20.3.2
• 20.3.3
• 20.3.4
• 20.3.5
• 20.3.6
• 20.3.7
• 20.3.8
• 20.3.9
• 20.3.10
• 20.3.11
• 20.3.12
• 20.3.13
• 20.3.14
• 20.3.15
• 20.3.16
• 20.3.17
• 20.3.18
• 20.3.19
• 20.3.20
• 20.3.21
• 21.2.0
• 21.2.1
• 21.2.2
• 21.2.3
• 21.2.4
• 21.2.5
• 21.2.6
• 21.2.7
• 21.2.8
• 21.2.9
• 21.2.10
• 21.2.11
• 21.2.12
• 21.2.13
• 21.2.14

Website

• Product: https://github.com/angular/angular/

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