GHSA-6rvg-6v2m-4j46

Transformers Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-12720
Aliases
PYSEC-2026-1982
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · transformersintroduced 0, fixed 4.48.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database