PYSEC-2026-1985 Transformers vulnerable to ReDoS attack through its get_imports() function

A Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS vulnerability was discovered in the Hugging Face Transformers library, specifically in the getimports function within dynamicmoduleutils.py. This vulnerability affects versions 4.49.0 and is fixed in version 4.51.0. The issue arises from a regular...

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Overview transformers is a State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS via the getimports function in dynamicmoduleutils.py. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by...