huggingface/transformers · Security
Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its SETTING_RE variable
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-3262
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3262 ↗
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/0720e206c6ba28887e4d60ef60a6a089f6c1cc76 ↗
- https://huntr.com/bounties/ecf5ccc4-39e7-4fb3-b547-14a41d31a184 ↗
- https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/126abe3461762e5fc180e7e614391d1b4ab051ca ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf ↗