MEDIUM 4.3
GHSA-fpwr-67px-3qhx
Transformers Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability
Details
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).
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Affected packages
PyPI / transformers
Introduced in:
0 Fixed in: 4.50.0 Fix
pip install --upgrade 'transformers>=4.50.0'