CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41208

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-11-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476, CWE-824

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code for boosted trees in TensorFlow is still missing validation. As a result, attackers can trigger denial of service (via dereferencing `nullptr`s or via `CHECK`-failures) as well as abuse undefined behavior (binding references to `nullptr`s). An attacker can also read and write from heap buffers, depending on the API that gets used and the arguments that are passed to the call. Given that the boosted trees implementation in TensorFlow is unmaintained, it is recommend to no longer use these APIs. We will deprecate TensorFlow's boosted trees APIs in subsequent releases. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Affected configurations

• google tensorflow (>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.4) • google tensorflow (>= 2.5.0 < 2.5.2) • google tensorflow (>= 2.6.0 < 2.6.1) • google tensorflow 2.7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness

References