CVE-2025-6638

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically affecting the MarianTokenizer's `remove_language_code()` method. This vulnerability is present in version 4.52.4 and has been fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from inefficient regex processing, which can be exploited by crafted input strings containing malformed language code patterns, leading to excessive CPU consumption and potential denial of service.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - security@huntr.dev

Published

2025-09-12

Last modified

2025-09-12

Weaknesses

CWE-1333

Affected products

• Huggingfacetransformers (Huggingface)
• Transformers (Huggingface)

References

• https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/47c34fba5c303576560cb29767efb452ff12b8be
• https://huntr.com/bounties/6a6c933f-9ce8-4ded-8b3b-2c1444c61f36