CVE-2021-29565

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a null pointer dereference in the implementation of `tf.raw_ops.SparseFillEmptyRows`. This is because of missing validation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/fdc82089d206e281c628a93771336bf87863d5e8/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse_fill_empty_rows_op.cc#L230-L231) that was covered under a `TODO`. If the `dense_shape` tensor is empty, then `dense_shape_t.vec<>()` would cause a null pointer dereference in the implementation of the op. 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.

How to fix CVE-2021-29565

To remediate CVE-2021-29565, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
—upgrade to faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f or later
—upgrade to faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f or later
—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
—upgrade to faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f or later
—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later

Is CVE-2021-29565 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (7)

from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
from 0, < 2.1.4
from 0, < faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
from 0, < faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
from 0, < 2.1.4
from 0, < faa76f39014ed3b5e2c158593b1335522e573c7f | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
from 0, < 2.1.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
osv	CVSS 3.1	LOW2.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L