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Hugging Face Transformers library has Regular Expression Denial of Service

Transformers

CVE-2025-6051 · Published Sep 14, 2025 · updated Sep 10, 2026

Medium5.3
Fix: upgrade to 4.53.0 or later
GitHub advisory

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.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
transformers
PyPI
< 4.53.04.53.0
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