CVE-2025-3264
July 07, 2025
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.
Affected Packages
transformers (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=2.1.1 <4.51.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.51.0https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.2 <v4.51.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.51.0transformers (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.1 <4.51.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.51.0transformers (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=0.1 <4.51.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.51.0Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
EPSS
Base Score:
0.1