maximum recursion depth exceeded
# questionsa
AWilborn
08/14/2025, 5:06 PMWhen running 'modelaudit model.safetensors' I'm recieving this error:
π SECURITY FINDINGS
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ββ π¨ [model.safetensors]
Error scanning SafeTensors file: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Why: Scanning errors may indicate corrupted files, unsupported
formats, or malicious content designed to crash
security tools.
exception: maximum recursion depth exceeded
exception_type: RecursionError
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Tabs [Promptfoo]
08/14/2025, 5:38 PMHave you tried setting a recursion limit?
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AWilborn
08/14/2025, 7:25 PMI did and it still failed. Just took longer to fail lol
AWilborn
08/14/2025, 7:25 PMThe percentage for the scan never increased
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Tabs [Promptfoo]
08/14/2025, 7:57 PM@shuo0446 got an idea?
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AWilborn
08/14/2025, 8:10 PMI assumed it was an issue with python so raised the recursion limit with the function setrecursionlimit. Since that didnβt work, wanted to reach out to you all to see if it was a bug. It has happened to any safetensors model that I try to scan locally.
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shuo0446
08/14/2025, 8:52 PM@michael.michael.michael
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08/14/2025, 9:02 PMyeah michael is the guy for this
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michael.michael.michael
08/15/2025, 2:43 PM@AWilborn would you mind sharing which model (or family of models) you are scanning?
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AWilborn
08/15/2025, 2:47 PMThe most recent one I tried was
https://huggingface.co/google-bert/bert-base-uncased/tree/main
but the .safetensors format has failed with multiple that Iβve scanned
AWilborn
08/15/2025, 2:49 PMIt seems like if I scan the whole model directly from hugging face it works but whenever I download a .safetensors model locally to scan it doesnβt.
AWilborn
08/15/2025, 2:51 PMWhich makes me wonder if scanning directly from hugging face is just returning with no error for .safetensors
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michael.michael.michael
08/15/2025, 3:12 PMLooking into it now, thank you
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AWilborn
08/15/2025, 3:13 PMNo problem! If you need better screenshots and a walkthrough of what I did I can send that in like 30 minutes or so. But basically I want to use modelaudit locally to scan models. Noticed it wasnβt working with .safetensors
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michael.michael.michael
08/15/2025, 11:11 PMI just cut a new release. Please pull the latest version and give it another try. If you encounter any other issues please feel free to grab some time on my calendar: https://cal.com/michael-dangelo/30min
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AWilborn
08/15/2025, 11:22 PMpython 3.12.11
modelaudit==0.2.1
AWilborn
08/15/2025, 11:26 PMIf that's the correct version I can schedule some time on your calendar maybe next week to look at it
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ian
08/20/2025, 10:22 PMthat is the correct version. @michael.michael.michael