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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-3263 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

published 2025-07-07 16 mo ago modified 2026-07-07 4 mo ago also GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9 , PYSEC-2026-1987 , EUVD-2025-20215

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi transformers 4.51.0
  • huggingface huggingface/transformers 4.51.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-3263 updated cvss 5.3

transformers: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers

  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9 Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel9, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) rhelai1/gemma-2-9b-it, rhelai1/bootc-amd-rhel9, rhelai1/bootc-intel-rhel9, rhelai1/gemma-2-9b-it-fp8, rhelai1/skills-adapter-v3, rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9, +24 more Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mm-rest-proxy-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kueue-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mlmd-grpc-server-rhel9, rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel8, rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9, +9 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.com https://huntr.com/bounties/c7a69150-54f8-4e81-8094-791e7a2a0f29 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi transformers
<4.51.0
4.51.0

Affected products

  • huggingface huggingface/transformers

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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