CVE-2025-1194

Published Apr 29, 2025

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was identified in the huggingface/transformers library, specifically in the file `tokenization_gpt_neox_japanese.py` of the GPT-NeoX-Japanese model. The vulnerability occurs in the SubWordJapaneseTokenizer class, where regular expressions process specially crafted inputs. The issue stems from a regex exhibiting exponential complexity under certain conditions, leading to excessive backtracking. This can result in high CPU usage and potential application downtime, effectively creating a Denial of Service (DoS) scenario. The affected version is v4.48.1 (latest).
Source
security@huntr.dev
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

security@huntr.dev
CWE-1333

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