CVE-2021-29518 Session operations in eager mode lead to null pointer dereferences

2021-05-1419:36:06

CWE-476

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

2.5 Low

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.8%

JSON

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In eager mode (default in TF 2.0 and later), session operations are invalid. However, users could still call the raw ops associated with them and trigger a null pointer dereference. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/eebb96c2830d48597d055d247c0e9aebaea94cd5/tensorflow/core/kernels/session_ops.cc#L104) dereferences the session state pointer without checking if it is valid. Thus, in eager mode, ctx->session_state() is nullptr and the call of the member function is undefined behavior. 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.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "tensorflow",
    "vendor": "tensorflow",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 2.1.4"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2"
      }
    ]
  }
]