CVE-2021-29549

LOW

TensorFlow < 2.1.4 - Denial of Service via Division by Zero in QuantizedBatchNormWithGlobalNormalization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a runtime division by zero error and denial of service in `tf.raw_ops.QuantizedBatchNormWithGlobalNormalization`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/6f26b3f3418201479c264f2a02000880d8df151c/tensorflow/core/kernels/quantized_add_op.cc#L289-L295) computes a modulo operation without validating that the divisor is not zero. Since `vector_num_elements` is determined based on input shapes(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/6f26b3f3418201479c264f2a02000880d8df151c/tensorflow/core/kernels/quantized_add_op.cc#L522-L544), a user can trigger scenarios where this quantity is 0. 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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-x83m-p7pv-ch8v

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.7%
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-369
Status published
Products (4)
google/tensorflow < 2.1.4
pypi/tensorflow 0 - 2.1.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-cpu 0 - 2.1.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-gpu 0 - 2.1.4PyPI
Published May 14, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026