CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-5197

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2025-08-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-1333

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the `convert_tf_weight_name_to_pt_weight_name()` function. This function, responsible for converting TensorFlow weight names to PyTorch format, uses a regex pattern `/[^/]*___([^/]*)/` that can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. The vulnerability affects versions up to 4.51.3 and is fixed in version 4.53.0. This issue can lead to service disruption, resource exhaustion, and potential API service vulnerabilities, impacting model conversion processes between TensorFlow and PyTorch formats.

Affected configurations

• huggingface transformers (< 4.53.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References