CVE-2025-4690 Affecting angular.js package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-ANGULARJS-14412210
  • published14 Dec 2025
  • disclosed19 Aug 2025

Introduced: 19 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-4690  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:unstable angular.js.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream angular.js package and not the angular.js package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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 .