5.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2025-3933
Hugging Face Transformers DonutProcessor ReDoS Vulnerability
Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the DonutProcessor class's `token2json()` method. This vulnerability affects versions 4.50.3 and earlier, and is fixed in version 4.52.1. The issue arises from the regex pattern `<s_(.*?)>` which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to service disruption, resource exhaustion, and potential API service vulnerabilities, impacting document processing tasks using the Donut model.

INFO

Published Date :

July 11, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

July 15, 2025, 1:14 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

1.4

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Huggingface transformers
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/ebbe9b12dd75b69f92100d684c47f923ee262a93
https://huntr.com/bounties/25282953-5827-4384-bb6f-5790d275721b

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 11, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically within the DonutProcessor class's `token2json()` method. This vulnerability affects versions 4.50.3 and earlier, and is fixed in version 4.52.1. The issue arises from the regex pattern `<s_(.*?)>` which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to service disruption, resource exhaustion, and potential API service vulnerabilities, impacting document processing tasks using the Donut model.
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-1333
    Added Reference https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/ebbe9b12dd75b69f92100d684c47f923ee262a93
    Added Reference https://huntr.com/bounties/25282953-5827-4384-bb6f-5790d275721b
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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