GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/07/GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9/GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9
Aliases
Published
2025-07-07T12:30:22Z
Modified
2025-07-08T17:12:18.528657Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Transformers's ReDoS vulnerability in get_configuration_file can lead to catastrophic backtracking
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-07-08T16:33:26Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-07T10:15:27Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / transformers

Package

Name
transformers
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Purl
pkg:pypi/transformers

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.51.0

Affected versions

0.*

0.1

2.*

2.0.0
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.3.0
2.4.0
2.4.1
2.5.0
2.5.1
2.6.0
2.7.0
2.8.0
2.9.0
2.9.1
2.10.0
2.11.0

3.*

3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.1.0
3.2.0
3.3.0
3.3.1
3.4.0
3.5.0
3.5.1

4.*

4.0.0rc1
4.0.0
4.0.1
4.1.0
4.1.1
4.2.0
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.3.0rc1
4.3.0
4.3.1
4.3.2
4.3.3
4.4.0
4.4.1
4.4.2
4.5.0
4.5.1
4.6.0
4.6.1
4.7.0
4.8.0
4.8.1
4.8.2
4.9.0
4.9.1
4.9.2
4.10.0
4.10.1
4.10.2
4.10.3
4.11.0
4.11.1
4.11.2
4.11.3
4.12.0
4.12.1
4.12.2
4.12.3
4.12.4
4.12.5
4.13.0
4.14.0
4.14.1
4.15.0
4.16.0
4.16.1
4.16.2
4.17.0
4.18.0
4.19.0
4.19.1
4.19.2
4.19.3
4.19.4
4.20.0
4.20.1
4.21.0
4.21.1
4.21.2
4.21.3
4.22.0
4.22.1
4.22.2
4.23.0
4.23.1
4.24.0
4.25.0
4.25.1
4.26.0
4.26.1
4.27.0
4.27.1
4.27.2
4.27.3
4.27.4
4.28.0
4.28.1
4.29.0
4.29.1
4.29.2
4.30.0
4.30.1
4.30.2
4.31.0
4.32.0
4.32.1
4.33.0
4.33.1
4.33.2
4.33.3
4.34.0
4.34.1
4.35.0
4.35.1
4.35.2
4.36.0
4.36.1
4.36.2
4.37.0
4.37.1
4.37.2
4.38.0
4.38.1
4.38.2
4.39.0
4.39.1
4.39.2
4.39.3
4.40.0
4.40.1
4.40.2
4.41.0
4.41.1
4.41.2
4.42.0
4.42.1
4.42.2
4.42.3
4.42.4
4.43.0
4.43.1
4.43.2
4.43.3
4.43.4
4.44.0
4.44.1
4.44.2
4.45.0
4.45.1
4.45.2
4.46.0
4.46.1
4.46.2
4.46.3
4.47.0
4.47.1
4.48.0
4.48.1
4.48.2
4.48.3
4.49.0
4.50.0
4.50.1
4.50.2
4.50.3