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CVE-2025-4690

MEDIUM

4.3

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 .

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score4.3

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published8/19/2025

Last Modified8/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333

References

https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77(36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c)

https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690(36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c)

https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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