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CVE-2021-29521

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in google tensorflow. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tensorflow 2.3.3, 2.4.2.

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Specifying a negative dense shape in `tf.raw_ops.SparseCountSparseOutput` results in a segmentation fault being thrown out from the standard library as `std::vector` invariants are broken. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L199-L213) assumes the first element of the dense shape is always positive and uses it to initialize a `BatchedMap<T>` (i.e., `std::vector<absl::flat_hash_map<int64,T>>`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L27)) data structure. If the `shape` tensor has more than one element, `num_batches` is the first value in `shape`. Ensuring that the `dense_shape` argument is a valid tensor shape (that is, all elements are non-negative) solves this issue. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2 and TensorFlow 2.3.3.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-131
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow>=2.3.0 <2.3.32.3.3
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow>=2.4.0 <2.4.22.4.2
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.32.3.3
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.22.4.2
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.32.3.3
GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.22.4.2
PYSEC-2021-158PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0 <2.3.3
>=2.4.0 <2.4.2
2.3.3, 2.4.2
PYSEC-2021-449PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.3
>=2.4.0 <2.4.2
2.3.3, 2.4.2
PYSEC-2021-647PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.3
>=2.4.0 <2.4.2
2.3.3, 2.4.2

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