TI-2025-04188 Aliases CVE-2025-4690 GHSA-hfff-63hg-f47j

AngularJS 'linky' filter ReDoS

MEDIUM 53CWE-1333Published 2025-08-19 · Updated 2025-08-19

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · Low
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-1333.

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 .

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00204 10th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Google	AngularJS	>=0.0.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

AngularJS VendorGoogle Affected >=0.0.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-4690
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hfff-63hg-f47j

References

Exploit 1

https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77

Advisory 1

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

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Sources

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