CVE-2025-3264

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_imports()` function within `dynamic_module_utils.py`. This vulnerability affects versions 4.49.0 and is fixed in version 4.51.0. The issue arises from a regular expression pattern `\s*try\s*:.*?except.*?:` used to filter out try/except blocks from Python code, which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to remote code loading disruption, resource exhaustion in model serving, supply chain attack vectors, and development pipeline disruption.

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