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TransformersGHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf

Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its SETTING_RE variable

Transformers

CVE-2025-3262 · Published Jul 7, 2025 · updated Jul 7, 2026

Medium5.3
Fix: upgrade to 4.51.0 or later
GitHub advisory

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 versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
transformers
PyPI
>= 4.49.0, < 4.51.04.51.0
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