CVE-2025-6051 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-6051: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

Vendor Huggingface
Product huggingface/transformers
Weakness CWE-1333
Published September 14, 2025
Last update September 15, 2025

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the `normalize_numbers()` method of the `EnglishNormalizer` class. This vulnerability affects versions up to 4.52.4 and is fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from the method's handling of numeric strings, which can be exploited using crafted input strings containing long sequences of digits, leading to excessive CPU consumption. This vulnerability impacts text-to-speech and number normalization tasks, potentially causing service disruption, resource exhaustion, and API vulnerabilities.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 14, 2025 CVE published
September 15, 2025 Record updated