CVE-2025-4690

published 2025-08-19

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…

Priority P4 18 medium 4.3 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI R S U C N I N A L

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 .

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	angular.js	—	—
google	angularjs	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 4.3 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

osv 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.3 MEDIUM

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