CVE-2021-41208

Incomplete validation in boosted trees code

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Nov 5, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Affected Products

ProductVersions
tensorflowtensorflow
  • >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1Affected
  • >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2Affected
  • < 2.4.4Affected

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