CVE-2025-4690
A regular expression used by AngularJS' linky https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngSanitize/filter/linky filter to detect URLs in input text is vulnerable to super-linear runtime due to backtracking. With a large carefully-crafted input, this can cause a Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS attack on the application. This issue affects all versions of AngularJS. Note: The AngularJS project is End-of-Life and will not receive any updates to address this issue. For more information see here https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/version-support-status .
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 4.3 Medium
- Status
- Deferred - 36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- Last modified
- 2025-08-19
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Affected products
References
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
