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CVE-2025-6051: ReDoS vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers EnglishNormalizer

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A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library affecting EnglishNormalizer. The flaw allows crafted inputs to cause excessive CPU consumption, which has been patched in version 4.53.0.

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CVSS
5.3
EPSS
<0.01 · top 68% · 2026-11-13
fix status
Fix status unknown
first report
14 Sep 2025
last update
14 Sep 2025

Timeline · 2

  1. 14 Sep 2025CVE-2025-6051: A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library,…
  2. 14 Sep 2025CVE-2025-6051: Hugging Face Transformers library has Regular Expression Denial of Service

Sources · 2

Advisories and databases

  1. 2025-09-14
  2. 2025-09-14
    CVE-2025-6051: Hugging Face Transformers library has Regular Expression Denial of Service
    GitHub Advisory Database · github.com/advisories/GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j

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AI role
Attack on AI
categories
Infrastructure vulnerability
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
fix status
Fix status unknown
targets
Framework / tooling
owasp llm top 10
LLM03:2025 Supply Chain
mitre atlas
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dates
happened 14 Sep 2025 · first reported 14 Sep 2025
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record
confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 07:00Z

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# CVE-2025-6051: ReDoS vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers EnglishNormalizer

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cve-2025-6051-redos-vulnerability-in-hugging-face-transforme · AIR-2025-0023 · closed 2025-09-14

- Lane: Patch now
- Severity: 2 (Disclosed vulnerability)
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2025-09-14
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Transformers
- CVE ids: CVE-2025-6051
- CVSS: 5.3

## Summary

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library affecting EnglishNormalizer. The flaw allows crafted inputs to cause excessive CPU consumption, which has been patched in version 4.53.0.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-09-14: CVE-2025-6051: Hugging Face Transformers library has Regular Expression Denial of Service (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j)
- 2025-09-14: CVE-2025-6051: A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library,… (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6051)

## Sources

- 2025-09-14 NVD: CVE-2025-6051: A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library,… https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6051
- 2025-09-14 GitHub Advisory Database: CVE-2025-6051: Hugging Face Transformers library has Regular Expression Denial of Service https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j

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