CVE-2021-29581

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Due to lack of validation in `tf.raw_ops.CTCBeamSearchDecoder`, an attacker can trigger denial of service via segmentation faults. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a74768f8e4efbda4def9f16ee7e13cf3922ac5f7/tensorflow/core/kernels/ctc_decoder_ops.cc#L68-L79) fails to detect cases when the input tensor is empty and proceeds to read data from a null buffer. 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-2021-29581

To remediate CVE-2021-29581, 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 b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e or later
—upgrade to b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e or later
—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
—upgrade to b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e or later
—upgrade to 2.1.4 or later

Is CVE-2021-29581 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, < b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e | 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, < b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e | 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, < b1b323042264740c398140da32e93fb9c2c9f33e | 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