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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-6051 EUVD-2025-29125GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6jPYSEC-2026-1988

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

Published Sep 14, 2025 · Updated Sep 15, 2025 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the `normalize_numbers()` method of the `EnglishNormalizer` class. This vulnerability affects versions up to 4.52.4 and is fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from the method's handling of numeric strings, which can be exploited using crafted input strings containing long sequences of digits, leading to excessive CPU consumption. This vulnerability impacts text-to-speech and number normalization tasks, potentially causing service disruption, resource exhaustion, and API vulnerabilities.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
huggingface huggingface/transformers unspecified – < 4.53.0 4.53.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI transformers < 4.53.0 4.53.0 GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j

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