CVE-2025-3263CWE-1333

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

Medium · published July 7, 2025

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00496 · 41.6th 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