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CVE-2025-4690

AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS

Published: Aug 19, 2025Updated: Aug 20, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-1333
4.3MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 89.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

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 .

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-1333

Affected Products

Google
commercial·USaka google inc, google llc
AngularJSLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / web-framework

Exploitability

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References

https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
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https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
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