CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-29543

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-05-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
2.5 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-617

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.

Affected configurations

• google tensorflow (< 2.1.4) • google tensorflow (>= 2.2.0 < 2.2.3) • google tensorflow (>= 2.3.0 < 2.3.3) • google tensorflow (>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References