AI Threat Alert

CVE-2021-29545

MEDIUM
Published May 14, 2021

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...

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Affected Systems

Package Ecosystem Vulnerable Range Patched
tensorflow pip — No patch
tensorflow pip — No patch
tensorflow pip — No patch
tensorflow pip — No patch

Severity & Risk

CVSS 3.1
5.5 / 10
EPSS
N/A
KEV Status
Not in KEV
Sophistication
N/A

Recommended Action

No patch available

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Compliance Impact

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Technical Details

NVD 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-131

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Timeline

Published
May 14, 2021
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
First Seen
May 14, 2021
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