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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 .
- Products
- angular.js
- Affected versions
- 1.2.28-1ubuntu2, 1.2.28-1ubuntu2+esm1, 1.5.10-1, 1.5.10-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.7.9-1, 1.7.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.8.2-2, 1.8.2-2ubuntu0.1, 1.8.3-1, 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1, 1.8.3-3
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-4690
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 .
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4690
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Complete source record
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