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GHSA-c9qf-r67m-p7cg

HighCVSS 7.7 / 10

Published Aug 25, 2021·Last modified Mar 13, 2026

Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

It is possible to trigger a null pointer dereference in TensorFlow by passing an invalid input to tf.raw_ops.CompressElement:

import tensorflow as tf

tf.raw_ops.CompressElement(components=[[]])

The implementation was accessing the size of a buffer obtained from the return of a separate function call before validating that said buffer is valid.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 5dc7f6981fdaf74c8c5be41f393df705841fb7c5.

The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, TensorFlow 2.4.3, and TensorFlow 2.3.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by members of the Aivul Team from Qihoo 360. Concurrently, it was resolved in master branch as it was also discovered internally and fixed before the report was handled.

Risk Scores

Base Score

7.7

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence

7.1

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS

0.16%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit

Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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