CVE-2021-29543

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/05/2021
Last modified:
27/07/2021

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 `tf.raw_ops.CTCGreedyDecoder`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1615440b17b364b875eb06f43d087381f1460a65/tensorflow/core/kernels/ctc_decoder_ops.cc#L37-L50) has a `CHECK_LT` inserted to validate some invariants. When this condition is false, the program aborts, instead of returning a valid error to the user. This abnormal termination can be weaponized in denial of service attacks. 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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.1.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.3.0 (including) 2.3.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.4.0 (including) 2.4.2 (excluding)