CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-4690

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2025-08-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c
CVSS 3.1 (36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c)
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-1333

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 .

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

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