CVE-2025-4690
Google LLC · published 2025-08-19
Source record Collected from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Description
Description by HeroDevs via the CVE Program.
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 .
Filed by HeroDevs; not a statement by Google LLC.
Status at the source
- NVD status: Deferred — NVD has not analysed this CVE.
- CVE tag (from HeroDevs): unsupported-when-assigned
Affected products, as the source lists them
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| AngularJS | >=0.0.0: affected |
DeSpy has not checked any unit, hardware revision or firmware. A product missing here is not a statement that it is unaffected.
Scores, as their sources published them
- CVSS 3.1: 4.3 MEDIUM — as published by HeroDevs (Secondary)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - SSVC — CISA's assessment (SSVC 2.0.3, CISA Coordinator): Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
DeSpy does not score records. These are the sources' own values.
Weaknesses
Sources
References the source lists
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
Source dates: published 2025-08-19, last changed 2026-06-17. DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.
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