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.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

threat_severity

Moderate


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First Time appeared Huggingface
Huggingface transformers
Vendors & Products Huggingface
Huggingface transformers

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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.
Title Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in huggingface/transformers
Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntr_ai

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-15T15:59:54.371Z

Reserved: 2025-06-13T10:39:33.128Z

Link: CVE-2025-6051

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-15T15:59:50.924Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-14T17:15:34.210

Modified: 2025-09-15T15:21:42.937

Link: CVE-2025-6051

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-09-14T17:03:02Z

Links: CVE-2025-6051 - Bugzilla