CVE-2025-4690
MEDIUMAngularJS - Regular Expression Denial of Service in linky Filter
Title source: llmDescription
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 .
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Various Sources third-party-advisory
https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
Various Sources technical-description
exploit
https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
9.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
Status
published
Products (1)
Google/AngularJS
>=0.0.0
Published
Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026