Inefficient regular expression complexity in transformers - CVE-2025-3933
Published: February 17, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU122988
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-3933
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to regex pattern `` can be exploited to cause excessive CPU consumption through crafted input strings due to catastrophic backtracking. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Affected software
transformers
Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component
Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component
How to mitigate CVE-2025-3933
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
transformers - update to 4.52.1
Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component - addressed in versions 8.10.25, 8.11.23, 9.0.15, 9.1.5
Maximo Application Suite - Monitor Component - addressed in versions 8.10.25, 8.11.23, 9.0.15, 9.1.5