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SCA: security update for transformers (GHSA-59p9-h35m-wg4g)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435293

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face
 Transformers library, specifically affecting the MarianTokenizer's `remove_language_code()` method. This
 vulnerability is present in version 4.52.4 and has been fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises from
 inefficient regex processing, which can be exploited by crafted input strings containing malformed
 language code patterns, leading to excessive CPU consumption and potential denial of service.
 (CVE-2025-6638)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-59p9-h35m-wg4g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435293

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/15/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6638