CVE-2021-41217

MEDIUM

TensorFlow < 2.4.4, 2.6.0-2.6.1 - Null Pointer Dereference in Control Flow Graph Construction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the process of building the control flow graph for a TensorFlow model is vulnerable to a null pointer exception when nodes that should be paired are not. This occurs because the code assumes that the first node in the pairing (e.g., an `Enter` node) always exists when encountering the second node (e.g., an `Exit` node). When this is not the case, `parent` is `nullptr` so dereferencing it causes a crash. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (5)
google/tensorflow 2.6.0
google/tensorflow < 2.4.4
pypi/tensorflow 2.6.0 - 2.6.1PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-cpu 2.6.0 - 2.6.1PyPI
pypi/tensorflow-gpu 2.6.0 - 2.6.1PyPI
Published Nov 05, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026