# CVE-2025-4690: AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-08-19 · Updated: 2025-08-19

## Affected

- angular-sanitize: from 0.0.0

## 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 .

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on angular-sanitize, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690
- https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77

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