CVE-2025-4690

CWE-13335 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 19

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages1 packages

CVEListV5google/angularjs>=0.0.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-hfff-63hg-f47j: A regular expression used by AngularJS' linky https://docs2025-08-19
CVEList
AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS2025-08-19
OSV
CVE-2025-4690: A regular expression used by AngularJS' linky https://docs2025-08-19

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2025-4690: angular.js - A regular expression used by AngularJS'  linky https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng...2025
CVE-2025-4690 (MEDIUM CVSS 4.3) | A regular expression used by Angula | cvebase.io