CVE-2021-29518CWE-476

Session operations in eager mode lead to null pointer dereferences

Low · published May 14, 2021

CVSS v3.1
2.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
2.5 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00201 · 9.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2021-05-14T19:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 19:36Z
    Session operations in eager mode lead to null pointer dereferences
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