A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the `get_configuration_file()` function within the `transformers.configuration_utils` module. The affected version is 4.49.0, and the issue is resolved in version 4.51.0. The vulnerability arises from the use of a regular expression pattern `config\.(.*)\.json` that can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings, leading to catastrophic backtracking. This can result in model serving disruption, resource exhaustion, and increased latency in applications using the library.
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Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:30:00 +0000

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threat_severity

Moderate


Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the `get_configuration_file()` function within the `transformers.configuration_utils` module. The affected version is 4.49.0, and the issue is resolved in version 4.51.0. The vulnerability arises from the use of a regular expression pattern `config\.(.*)\.json` that can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings, leading to catastrophic backtracking. This can result in model serving disruption, resource exhaustion, and increased latency in applications using the library.
Title Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers
Weaknesses CWE-1333
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Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntr_ai

Published: 2025-07-07T09:54:59.670Z

Updated: 2025-07-07T14:51:54.953Z

Reserved: 2025-04-04T12:40:57.226Z

Link: CVE-2025-3263

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-07T14:49:43.884Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-07-07T10:15:27.350

Modified: 2025-07-07T10:15:27.350

Link: CVE-2025-3263

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-07-07T09:54:59Z

Links: CVE-2025-3263 - Bugzilla