CVE-2025-4690 Information

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 .

Reference

https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77 https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690 https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690 https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77