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CVE-2021-37646

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 2.3.4, 2.4.3, 2.5.1.

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the implementation of `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams` is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue caused by converting a signed integer value to an unsigned one and then allocating memory based on this value. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8d72537c6abf5a44103b57b9c2e22c14f5f49698/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L184) calls `reserve` on a `tstring` with a value that sometimes can be negative if user supplies negative `ngram_widths`. The `reserve` method calls `TF_TString_Reserve` which has an `unsigned long` argument for the size of the buffer. Hence, the implicit conversion transforms the negative value to a large integer. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit c283e542a3f422420cfdb332414543b62fc4e4a5. 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.

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 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-681
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-cpu<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-gpu<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-h6jh-7gv5-28vgPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
PYSEC-2021-268PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3
PYSEC-2021-559PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3
PYSEC-2021-757PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3

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