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GHSA-37mw-44qp-f5jm: Transformers is vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its DonutProcessor class

OSV AI package advisories · observation · Jul 11, 2025 · UTC

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 4.51.3 and earlier, and is fixed in version 4.52.1. The issue arises from the regex pattern ` ` 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 t

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recordType
vulnerability
status
active
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Evidence & attribution

First collected: 2026-09-19T20:26:46.936Z. This is not the publication date.