CVE-2021-41208CWE-476CWE-824

Incomplete validation in boosted trees code

High · published November 5, 2021

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference; CWE-824 · Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Published
2021-11-05T21:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 NOV 21:50Z
    Incomplete validation in boosted trees code
    cvelistv5