CVE-2021-41217
MEDIUMTensorFlow < 2.4.4, 2.6.0-2.6.1 - Null Pointer Dereference in Control Flow Graph Construction
Title source: llmDescription
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
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-5crj-c72x-m7gq
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/05cbebd3c6bb8f517a158b0155debb8df79017ff
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