CVE-2025-3264CWE-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_imports()` function within `dynamic_module_utils.py`. This vulnerability affects versions 4.49.0 and is fixed in version 4.51.0. The issue arises from a regular expression pattern `\s*try\s*:.*?except.*?:` used to filter out try/except blocks from Python code, which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to remote code loading disruption, resource exhaustion in model serving, supply chain attack vectors, and development pipeline disruption.

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
2025-07-07T09:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 JUL 09:55Z
    Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers
    cvelistv5