CVE-2021-37657

HIGH

Google Tensorflow < 2.3.4 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in all operations of type `tf.raw_ops.MatrixDiagV*`. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/84d053187cb80d975ef2b9684d4b61981bca0c41/tensorflow/core/kernels/linalg/matrix_diag_op.cc) has incomplete validation that the value of `k` is a valid tensor. We have check that this value is either a scalar or a vector, but there is no check for the number of elements. If this is an empty tensor, then code that accesses the first element of the tensor is wrong. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit f2a673bd34f0d64b8e40a551ac78989d16daad09. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, TensorFlow 2.4.3, and TensorFlow 2.3.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-824
Status published
Products (6)
google/tensorflow 2.5.0
google/tensorflow 2.6.0 rc0 (3 CPE variants)
google/tensorflow 2.3.0 - 2.3.4
pypi/tensorflow 0 - 2.3.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-cpu 0 - 2.3.4PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-gpu 0 - 2.3.4PyPI
Published Aug 12, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026