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 .

CVSS v3.1

4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 10th percentile

Published

2025-08-19

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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