Executive brief
Hugging Face Transformers Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability
Affected products
- PyPI transformers
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2025-5197: PYSEC-2026-1983 - Hugging Face Transformers Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability
CVE-2025-5197 · Severity: low · CVSS 3 · Published 2026-07-07
Technologies: transformers (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.
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