CVE-2025-4690
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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 .
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AngularJS | >=0.0.0 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333: CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
Additional References
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
References
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
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