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SCA: security update for transformers (GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 435330

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 within the `normalize_numbers()` method of the `EnglishNormalizer`
 class. This vulnerability affects versions up to 4.52.4 and is fixed in version 4.53.0. The issue arises
 from the method's handling of numeric strings, which can be exploited using crafted input strings
 containing long sequences of digits, leading to excessive CPU consumption. This vulnerability impacts
 text-to-speech and number normalization tasks, potentially causing service disruption, resource
 exhaustion, and API vulnerabilities. (CVE-2025-6051)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rcv9-qm8p-9p6j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 435330

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/16/2025

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-2025-6051

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: 9/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6051