CVE-2025-2099

HIGH

Huggingface Transformers < 4.48.3 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the `preprocess_string()` function of the `transformers.testing_utils` module in huggingface/transformers version v4.48.3 allows for a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. The regular expression used to process code blocks in docstrings contains nested quantifiers, leading to exponential backtracking when processing input with a large number of newline characters. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted payload, causing high CPU usage and potential application downtime, effectively resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) scenario.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
huggingface/transformers < 4.48.3
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.50.0PyPI
Published May 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026