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Bug#1126778: angular.js: CVE-2025-4690

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  Bug#1126778: angular.js: CVE-2025-4690 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2026-02-01 11:10 +0100

#1280386 — Bug#1126778: angular.js: CVE-2025-4690

Source: angular.js
Version: 1.8.3-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for angular.js.

Can you please investigate if this affects the older version in
Debian.

CVE-2025-4690[0]:
| 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 .


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4690
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4690

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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