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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-2099 EUVD-2025-15691GHSA-qq3j-4f4f-9583PYSEC-2025-40

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

Published May 19, 2025 · Updated May 19, 2025 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

A vulnerability in the `preprocess_string()` function of the `transformers.testing_utils` module in huggingface/transformers version v4.48.3 allows for a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. The regular expression used to process code blocks in docstrings contains nested quantifiers, leading to exponential backtracking when processing input with a large number of newline characters. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted payload, causing high CPU usage and potential application downtime, effectively resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) scenario.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
huggingface huggingface/transformers unspecified – < 4.50.0 4.50.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI transformers < 4.50.0 4.50.0 GHSA-qq3j-4f4f-9583
PyPI transformers < 4.49.0 4.49.0 PYSEC-2025-40

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