CVE-2025-6051 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers
Attackers can cause service disruption and resource exhaustion in Hugging Face Transformers by submitting crafted numeric strings to the number normalization method.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-6051?
CVE-2025-6051 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in huggingface/transformers, published on 14 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the `normalize_numbers()` method of the `EnglishNormalizer` class. This vulnerability affects versions up to 4.52.4 and is fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from the method's handling of numeric strings, which can be exploited using crafted input strings containing long sequences of digits, leading to excessive CPU consumption. This vulnerability impacts text-to-speech and number normalization tasks, potentially causing service disruption, resource exhaustion, and API vulnerabilities.
Weakness: CWE-1333
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6051?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including transformers. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
transformers PyPI | All versions | 4.53.0 |
transformers PyPI | All versions | 4.53.0 |
transformers PyPI | All versions | 4.53.0 |
Products include Huggingface Transformers.
How do I fix CVE-2025-6051?
Upgrade transformers to 4.53.0 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-6051 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-6051 exists.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j, PYSEC-2026-1988.