CVE-2021-37658

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in all operations of type `tf.raw_ops.MatrixSetDiagV*`. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/84d053187cb80d975ef2b9684d4b61981bca0c41/tensorflow/core/kernels/linalg/matrix_diag_op.cc) has incomplete validation that the value of `k` is a valid tensor. We have check that this value is either a scalar or a vector, but there is no check for the number of elements. If this is an empty tensor, then code that accesses the first element of the tensor is wrong. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b. 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.

How to fix CVE-2021-37658

To remediate CVE-2021-37658, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 2.3.4 or later
—upgrade to 2.3.4 or later
—upgrade to ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b or later
—upgrade to ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b or later
—upgrade to 2.3.4 or later
—upgrade to ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b or later
—upgrade to 2.3.4 or later

Is CVE-2021-37658 being exploited?

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

Affected packages (7)

>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3, >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1
from 0, < 2.3.4
from 0, < ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b | >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
from 0, < ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b | >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
from 0, < 2.3.4
from 0, < ff8894044dfae5568ecbf2ed514c1a37dc394f1b | >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
from 0, < 2.3.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H