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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-3263 EUVD-2025-20215GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9PYSEC-2026-1987

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 Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the `get_configuration_file()` function within the `transformers.configuration_utils` module. The affected version is 4.49.0, and the issue is resolved in version 4.51.0. The vulnerability arises from the use of a regular expression pattern `config\.(.*)\.json` that can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings, leading to catastrophic backtracking. This can result in model serving disruption, resource exhaustion, and increased latency in applications using the library.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
huggingface huggingface/transformers unspecified – < 4.51.0 4.51.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI transformers < 4.51.0 4.51.0 GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9

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