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.
Published:Sep 12, 2025
Last Modified:Oct 21, 2025
EPS:Sep 12, 2025
EPSS Score:0.00054
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Huggingface
Product
Transformers
Huggingface
Transformers
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
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Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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