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 .
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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 . | |
Title | AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS | |
Weaknesses | CWE-1333 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: HeroDevs
Published: 2025-08-19T13:19:27.919Z
Updated: 2025-08-19T13:35:50.828Z
Reserved: 2025-05-14T15:39:08.634Z
Link: CVE-2025-4690

Updated: 2025-08-19T13:26:53.041Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-08-19T14:15:39.323
Modified: 2025-08-20T14:40:17.713
Link: CVE-2025-4690

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