GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87 Denial of service in tensorflow-lite
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-15213
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119, CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2020-09-25
Affected packages
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 → fixed in 2.3.1
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 → fixed in 2.3.1
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 → fixed in 2.3.1
Description
Impact
In TensorFlow Lite models using segment sum can trigger a denial of service by causing an out of memory allocation in the implementation of segment sum. Since code uses the last element of the tensor holding them to determine the dimensionality of output tensor, attackers can use a very large value to trigger a large allocation:
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/0e68f4d3295eb0281a517c3662f6698992b7b2cf/tensorflow/lite/kernels/segment_sum.cc#L39-L44
Patches
We have patched the issue in 204945b and will release patch releases for all affected versions.
We recommend users to upgrade to TensorFlow 2.2.1, or 2.3.1.
Workarounds
A potential workaround would be to add a custom `Verifier` to limit the maximum value in the segment ids tensor. This only handles the case when the segment ids are stored statically in the model, but a similar validation could be done if the segment ids are generated at runtime, between inference steps.
However, if the segment ids are generated as outputs of a tensor during inference steps, then there are no possible workaround and users are advised to upgrade to patched code.
For more information
Please consult our security guide for more information regarding the security model and how to contact us with issues and questions.
Attribution
This vulnerability has been discovered from a variant analysis of GHSA-p2cq-cprg-frvm.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-15213 In TensorFlow Lite before versions 2.2.1 and 2.3.1, models using segment sum can trigger a denial of service by causing an out of memory… vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15213 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/00c7ed7ce81c2126ebc17dfe7073b5c0efd5ec0a web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/204945b19e44b57906c9344c0d00120eeeae178a web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/a4030d8ba3692c438997c27be2dd95f3d5f54827 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2020-293.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2020-328.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2020-136.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/0e68f4d3295eb0281a517c3662f6698992b7b2cf/tensorflow/lite/kernels/segment_sum.cc#L39-L44 web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.3.1 web