AngularJS ‘linky’ filter ReDoS_CVE-2025-4690

4.3 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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 .

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-4690

Source HeroDevs

Published Aug 19, 2025 at 13:19

Modified Aug 19, 2025 at 13:35

Affected Product

Vendor Google

Product AngularJS

Version >=0.0.0

Affected Versions Google AngularJS >=0.0.0

CWE Classification

CWE-1333

References

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