CVE-2025-4690
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
19/08/2025
Last modified:
20/08/2025
Description
A regular expression used by AngularJS&#39; 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 <br />
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Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS attack on the application.<br />
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This issue affects all versions of AngularJS.<br />
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Note:<br />
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 .
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.30
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM