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CVE-2021-37649

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. The code for `tf.raw_ops.UncompressElement` can be made to trigger a null pointer dereference. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/f24faa153ad31a4b51578f8181d3aaab77a1ddeb/tensorflow/core/kernels/data/experimental/compression_ops.cc#L50-L53) obtains a pointer to a `CompressedElement` from a `Variant` tensor and then proceeds to dereference it for decompressing. There is no check that the `Variant` tensor contained a `CompressedElement`, so the pointer is actually `nullptr`. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 7bdf50bb4f5c54a4997c379092888546c97c3ebd. 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 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-476
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-cpu<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-gpu<2.3.42.3.4
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.4.0 <2.4.32.4.3
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvrPyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.5.0 <2.5.12.5.1
PYSEC-2021-271PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3
PYSEC-2021-562PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3
PYSEC-2021-760PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0 <2.3.4
>=2.4.0 <2.4.3
2.3.4, 2.4.3

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