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CVE-2025-4690 – AngularJS Linky Filter Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-4690 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by 36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c

    Aug. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Tag unsupported-when-assigned
    Added 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 .
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-1333
    Added Reference https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
    Added Reference https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
  • CVE Modified
    by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Aug. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77
    Added Reference https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
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