{"answers":{"affected":"3 open source packages ship an affected version, including transformers. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-12720 exists.","fix":"Upgrade transformers to 4.48.0 or later.","what":"CVE-2024-12720 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in huggingface/transformers, published on 20 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12720 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-12720 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in huggingface/transformers, published on 20 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-12720 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- transformers (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 4.48.0\n- transformers (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 4.48.0\n- transformers (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 4.48.0\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12720/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12720/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-12720","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12720/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-12720","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-6rvg-6v2m-4j46","PYSEC-2026-1982"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Python ML library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service in applications using the transformers library by submitting crafted input that triggers excessive CPU usage via regex backtracking.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"@huntr_ai","cpe":[{"product":"transformers","vendor":"huggingface"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-1333","name":"Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity"}],"description":"A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was identified in the huggingface/transformers library, specifically in the file tokenization_nougat_fast.py. The vulnerability occurs in the post_process_single() function, where a regular expression processes specially crafted input. The issue stems from the regex exhibiting exponential time complexity under certain conditions, leading to excessive backtracking. This can result in significantly high CPU usage and potential application downtime, effectively creating a Denial of Service (DoS) scenario. The affected version is v4.46.3 (latest).","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers","id":"CVE-2024-12720","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2024"},"n_packages":3,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Custom Product Tabs For WooCommerce \u003c= 1.2.4 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) PHP Object Injection","id":"CVE-2024-12721"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["4.48.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"transformers","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-6rvg-6v2m-4j46"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["4.48.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"transformers","purl":"pkg:pypi/transformers","source":"GHSA-6rvg-6v2m-4j46"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["4.48.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"transformers","purl":"pkg:pypi/transformers","source":"PYSEC-2026-1982"}],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress File Upload \u003c= 4.24.15 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2024-12719"},"products":["huggingface/transformers"],"published":"2025-03-20","related":[{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data in huggingface/transformers","id":"CVE-2023-7018","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-20"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data in huggingface/transformers","id":"CVE-2023-6730","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-19"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Hugging Face Transformers MaskFormer Model Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-11393","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-22"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Hugging Face Transformers Trax Model Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-11394","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-22"},{"cvss_score":8,"headline":"Policy Bypass in LightGlue Nested Config Resolution in huggingface/transformers","id":"CVE-2026-5241","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-06-03"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via `_attn_implementation_internal` Config Injection in huggingface/transformers","id":"CVE-2026-4372","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-05-24"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Hugging Face Transformers Perceiver Model Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-14920","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-23"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-03-20","vendors":["huggingface"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service in applications using the transformers library by submitting crafted input that triggers excessive CPU usage via regex backtracking.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12720/"}