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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-33397"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-26T13:46:16.145Z"
updatedAt: "2026-03-30T14:56:05.822Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-33397"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-33397.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33397"
title: "Angular SSR Vulnerable to Protocol-Relative URL Injection via Single Backslash Bypass"
summary: "The Angular SSR is a server-rise rendering tool for Angular applications. Versions on the 22.x branch prior to 22.0.0-next.2, the 21.x branch prior to 21.2.3, and the 20.x branch prior to 20.3.21 have an Open Redirect vulnerability in `@angular/ssr` due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-27738. While the original fix successfully blocked multiple leading slashes (e.g., `///`), the internal validation logic fails to account for a single backslash (`\\`) bypass. When an Angular SSR application is deployed behind a proxy that passes the `X-Forwarded-Prefix` header, an attacker provides a value starting with a single backslash, the internal validation failed to flag the single backslash as invalid, the application prepends a leading forward slash, resulting in a `Location` header containing the URL, and modern browsers interpret the `/\\` sequence as `//`, treating it as a protocol-relative URL and redirecting the user to the attacker-controlled domain. Furthermore, the response lacks the `Vary: X-Forwarded-Prefix` header, allowing the malicious redirect to be stored in intermediate caches (Web Cache Poisoning). Versions 22.0.0-next.2, 21.2.3, and 20.3.21 contain a patch. Until the patch is applied, developers should sanitize the `X-Forwarded-Prefix` header in their `server.ts` before the Angular engine processes the request."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003e= 22.0.0-next.0, \u003c 22.0.0-next.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 21.0.0-next.0, \u003c 21.2.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 20.0.0-next.0, \u003c 20.3.21","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"angular","product":"angular-cli"}]

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