CVE-2025-3933

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

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Jul 11, 2025
Updated
Jul 11, 2025
Reserved
Apr 25, 2025

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Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the DonutProcessor class's `token2json()` method. This vulnerability affects versions 4.50.3 and earlier, and is fixed in version 4.52.1. The issue arises from the regex pattern `<s_(.*?)>` which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to service disruption, resource exhaustion, and potential API service vulnerabilities, impacting document processing tasks using the Donut model.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.05.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L@huntr_ai

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
huggingface/transformershuggingface
  • before 4.52.1Affected

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