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CVE-2021-29561: TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a denia…

Occurred
May 14, 2021
Published
May 14, 2021
Source
NVD CVE

Summary

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exploiting a `CHECK`-failure coming from `tf.raw_ops.LoadAndRemapMatrix`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/d94227d43aa125ad8b54115c03cece54f6a1977b/tensorflow/core/kernels/ragged_tensor_to_tensor_op.cc#L219-L222) assumes that the `ckpt_path` is always a valid scalar. However, an attacker can send any other tensor as the first argument of `LoadAndRemapMatrix`. This would cause the rank `CHECK` in `scalar<T>()()` to trigger and terminate the process. 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.

Tags

  • CVE
  • CVE-2021-29561
  • cvss:LOW

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: TensorFlow vulnerability causing denial of service in ML platform, fits LLM category as it affects ML infrastructure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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