CVE-2021-29543 CHECK-fail in `CTCGreedyDecoder`

2021-05-1419:11:12

CWE-617

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.8%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

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    "product": "tensorflow",
    "vendor": "tensorflow",
    "versions": [
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        "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"
      }
    ]
  }
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