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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| huggingface | huggingface/transformers | unspecified – < 4.51.0 | 4.51.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | transformers | >= 4.49.0, < 4.51.0 | 4.51.0 | GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf |
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