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SCA: security update for transformers (GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 428312

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 in the `get_configuration_file()` function within the
 `transformers.configuration_utils` module. The affected version is 4.49.0, and the issue is resolved in
 version 4.51.0. The vulnerability arises from the use of a regular expression pattern `config\.(.*)\.json`
 that can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings, leading to
 catastrophic backtracking. This can result in model serving disruption, resource exhaustion, and increased
 latency in applications using the library. (CVE-2025-3263)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2wp-rjmx-x6x9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428312

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3263

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3263