GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wfMediumCVSS 5.3

Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its SETTING_RE variable

Published
July 7, 2025
Last Modified
August 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/transformers:>= 4.49.0, < 4.51.0

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