{"id":"CVE-2025-4690","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-4690","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:56:14.620Z","title":"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.","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 \n\n Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS  attack on the application.\n\nThis issue affects all versions of AngularJS.\n\nNote:\nThe 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":"2025-08-19T14:15:39.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:33:48.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-1333"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00204,"percentile":0.103,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77","source":"36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c"},{"url":"https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690","source":"36c7be3b-2937-45df-85ea-ca7133ea542c"},{"url":"https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"},{"url":"https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690","source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4690","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}