CVE-2025-3262CWE-1333

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

Medium · published July 7, 2025

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00494 · 41.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Published
2025-07-07T09:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 JUL 09:54Z
    Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers
    cvelistv5