CVE-2021-29554
Division by 0 in `DenseCountSparseOutput`
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a denial of service via a FPE runtime error in `tf.raw_ops.DenseCountSparseOutput`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/efff014f3b2d8ef6141da30c806faf141297eca1/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L123-L127) computes a divisor value from user data but does not check that the result is 0 before doing the division. Since `data` is given by the `values` argument, `num_batch_elements` is 0. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, and TensorFlow 2.3.3, as these are also affected.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 2.3.3
- affected >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPItensorflowGHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5 (opens in a new tab)
- PyPItensorflow-cpuGHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5 (opens in a new tab)
- PyPItensorflow-gpuGHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/da5ff2daf618591f64b2b62d9d9803951b945e9f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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