CVE-2025-6638 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-6638: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

Vendor Huggingface
Product huggingface/transformers
Weakness CWE-1333
Published September 12, 2025
Last update September 12, 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 affecting the MarianTokenizer's `remove_language_code()` method. This vulnerability is present in version 4.52.4 and has been fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from inefficient regex processing, which can be exploited by crafted input strings containing malformed language code patterns, leading to excessive CPU consumption and potential denial of service.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 12, 2025 CVE published
September 12, 2025 Record updated