VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-6638

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-09-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Primary references