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Vulnerability_idVCID-msje-w8r1-wkh8
Summary
Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its SETTING_RE variable
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the huggingface/transformers repository, specifically in version 4.49.0. The vulnerability is due to inefficient regular expression complexity in the `SETTING_RE` variable within the `transformers/commands/chat.py` file. The regex contains repetition groups and non-optimized quantifiers, leading to exponential backtracking when processing 'almost matching' payloads. This can degrade application performance and potentially result in a denial-of-service (DoS) when handling specially crafted input strings. The issue is fixed in version 4.51.0.
Aliases
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alias CVE-2025-3262
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alias GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf
Fixed_packages
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url pkg:pypi/transformers@4.51.0
purl pkg:pypi/transformers@4.51.0
is_vulnerable false
affected_by_vulnerabilities
resource_url http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:pypi/transformers@4.51.0
Affected_packages
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url pkg:pypi/transformers@4.49.0
purl pkg:pypi/transformers@4.49.0
is_vulnerable true
affected_by_vulnerabilities
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vulnerability VCID-msje-w8r1-wkh8
resource_url http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:pypi/transformers@4.49.0
References
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reference_url https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-3262.json
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reference_url https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
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reference_url https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376761
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reference_url https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3262
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reference_url https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf
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url https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-489j-g2vx-39wf
Weaknesses
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cwe_id 1333
name Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
description The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.
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cwe_id 937
name OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
description Weaknesses in this category are related to the A9 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2013.
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cwe_id 1035
name OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
description Weaknesses in this category are related to the A9 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2017.
Exploits
Severity_range_score4.0 - 6.9
Exploitability0.5
Weighted_severity6.2
Risk_score3.1
Resource_urlhttp://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-msje-w8r1-wkh8