CVE-2021-29545

LOW

Google Tensorflow < 2.1.4 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a denial of service via a `CHECK`-fail in converting sparse tensors to CSR Sparse matrices. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/800346f2c03a27e182dd4fba48295f65e7790739/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse/kernels.cc#L66) does a double redirection to access an element of an array allocated on the heap. If the value at `indices(i, 0)` is such that `indices(i, 0) + 1` is outside the bounds of `csr_row_ptr`, this results in writing outside of bounds of heap allocated data. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-131
Status published

Affected Products (4)

google/tensorflow < 2.1.4
pypi/tensorflow < 2.1.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4PyPI

Timeline

Published May 14, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026