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    CVE-2025-4690

    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 .

    Published:Aug 19, 2025
    Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
    EPS:Aug 19, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.00028
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Angularjs
    Product
    Angularjs

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup

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