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title: "CVE-2025-4690\n    | Ubuntu"
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-4690?format=md
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# CVE-2025-4690

Publication date 19 August 2025

Last updated 17 December 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**4.3 · Medium**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-4690?format=md#impact-score)

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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 .

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| angular.js | 26.04 LTS resolute | Needs evaluation |
| 25.10 questing | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 25.04 plucky | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 24.04 LTS noble | Needs evaluation |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Needs evaluation |
| 20.04 LTS focal | Needs evaluation |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Needs evaluation |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Needs evaluation |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

4.3 · Medium

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | Low |
  | Privileges required | None |
  | User interaction | Required |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | None |
  | Integrity impact | None |
  | Availability impact | Low |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 4.3 · Medium |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

**Vector:** CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-4690)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4690)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2025-4690)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4690)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4690>
* <https://www.herodevs.com/vulnerability-directory/cve-2025-4690>
* <https://codepen.io/herodevs/pen/RNNEPzP/751b91eab7730dff277523f3d50e4b77>