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ghsa-hfff-63hg-f47j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-19 15:31

Modified

2025-08-19 15:31

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

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 .

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  "modified": "2025-08-19T15:31:29Z",
  "published": "2025-08-19T15:31:28Z",
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CVE-2025-4690 (GCVE-0-2025-4690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-19 13:19

Modified

2025-08-19 13:35

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Summary

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 .

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690	third-party-advisory
	https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77	technical-description, exploit

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Google	AngularJS	Version: >=0.0.0 ≤

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Nomenclature

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Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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