CVE-2025-3263

MEDIUM

Hugging Face Transformers <4.51.0 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
huggingface/transformers 4.49.0 - 4.51.0
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.51.0PyPI
Published Jul 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026