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GHSA-jjph-296x-mrcr: Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its get_imports() function
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the `get_imports()` function within `dynamic_module_utils.py`. This vulnerability affects versions 4.49.0 and is fixed in version 4.51.0. The issue arises from a regular expression pattern `\s*try\s*:.*?except.*?:` used to filter out try/except blocks from Python code, which can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. This vulnerability can lead to remote code loading disruption, resource ex
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- vulnerability
- status
- active
- evidenceStatus
- reported
- region
- Global
Evidence & attribution
- OSV AI package advisories · 2025-07-07T12:30:22.000Z
- OSV AI package advisories · 2026-07-07T16:02:56.404Z
First collected: 2026-09-19T20:26:46.936Z. This is not the publication date.