Medium severity · published Aug 19, 2025
CVE-2025-4690
AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS
4.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 .
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
AngularJS · Google
>=0.0.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4690
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4690
codepen.io
https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
www.herodevs.com
https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
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