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Vulnerability · Published Aug 19, 2025 · Assigned by HeroDevs

CVE-2025-4690AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity regular-expression denial of service in AngularJS from Google. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 .

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12angular.jsno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-4690
Debian:13angular.jsno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-4690
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSangular.jsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSangular.jsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690
Ubuntu:25.10angular.jsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSangular.jsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690
Ubuntu:26.10angular.jsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Google AngularJS >=0.0.0

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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