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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-3262 EUVD-2025-20217GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wfPYSEC-2026-1979

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

Published Jul 7, 2025 · Updated Jul 7, 2025 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the huggingface/transformers repository, specifically in version 4.49.0. The vulnerability is due to inefficient regular expression complexity in the `SETTING_RE` variable within the `transformers/commands/chat.py` file. The regex contains repetition groups and non-optimized quantifiers, leading to exponential backtracking when processing 'almost matching' payloads. This can degrade application performance and potentially result in a denial-of-service (DoS) when handling specially crafted input strings. The issue is fixed in version 4.51.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
huggingface huggingface/transformers unspecified – < 4.51.0 4.51.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI transformers >= 4.49.0, < 4.51.0 4.51.0 GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf

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