CVE-2025-6051

MEDIUM

Hugging Face Transformers <4.52.4 - 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 `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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.1%
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 no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
huggingface/transformers 4.52.4
pypi/transformers 0 - 4.53.0PyPI
Published Sep 14, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026