CVE-2021-29521

LOW

TensorFlow 2.3.0-2.3.2 - Denial of Service via Negative Dense Shape in SparseCountSparseOutput

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Specifying a negative dense shape in `tf.raw_ops.SparseCountSparseOutput` results in a segmentation fault being thrown out from the standard library as `std::vector` invariants are broken. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L199-L213) assumes the first element of the dense shape is always positive and uses it to initialize a `BatchedMap<T>` (i.e., `std::vector<absl::flat_hash_map<int64,T>>`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L27)) data structure. If the `shape` tensor has more than one element, `num_batches` is the first value in `shape`. Ensuring that the `dense_shape` argument is a valid tensor shape (that is, all elements are non-negative) solves this issue. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2 and TensorFlow 2.3.3.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-131
Status published
Products (4)
google/tensorflow 2.3.0 - 2.3.3
pypi/tensorflow 2.3.0 - 2.3.3PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-cpu 2.3.0 - 2.3.3PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-gpu 2.3.0 - 2.3.3PyPI
Published May 14, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026