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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-6638 EUVD-2025-29032GHSA-59p9-h35m-wg4gPYSEC-2026-1981

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

Published Sep 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 12, 2025 · Assigned by @huntr_ai

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically affecting the MarianTokenizer's `remove_language_code()` method. This vulnerability is present in version 4.52.4 and has been fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from inefficient regex processing, which can be exploited by crafted input strings containing malformed language code patterns, leading to excessive CPU consumption and potential denial of service.

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-59p9-h35m-wg4g

References