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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2025-6638

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

huggingface huggingface/transformers

  • unspecified to < 4.53.0affected

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