CVEs-PoC/2025/CVE-2025-4690.md

CVE-2025-4690

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 .

POC

Reference

• https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds