CVE-2025-3933

MEDIUM

Hugging Face Transformers <4.50.3 - 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 within the DonutProcessor class's `token2json()` method. This vulnerability affects versions 4.50.3 and earlier, and is fixed in version 4.52.1. The issue arises from the regex pattern `<s_(.*?)>` which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to service disruption, resource exhaustion, and potential API service vulnerabilities, impacting document processing tasks using the Donut model.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/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 < 4.52.1
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.52.1PyPI
Published Jul 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026