CVE-2025-4690 (GCVE-0-2025-4690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 13:19 – Updated: 2025-08-19 13:35 Unsupported When Assigned X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS
Summary
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 .
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-19 13:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google AngularJS Affected: >=0.0.0 (semver)
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