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GHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5

LowCVSS 2.5 / 10
Published May 21, 2021·Last modified Mar 13, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

An attacker can cause a denial of service via a FPE runtime error in tf.raw_ops.DenseCountSparseOutput:

import tensorflow as tf

values = tf.constant([], shape=[0, 0], dtype=tf.int64)
weights = tf.constant([])

tf.raw_ops.DenseCountSparseOutput(
  values=values, weights=weights,
  minlength=-1, maxlength=58, binary_output=True)

This is because the implementation computes a divisor value from user data but does not check that the result is 0 before doing the division:

int num_batch_elements = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < num_batch_dimensions; ++i) {
  num_batch_elements *= data.shape().dim_size(i);
}
int num_value_elements = data.shape().num_elements() / num_batch_elements;

Since data is given by the values argument, num_batch_elements is 0.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit da5ff2daf618591f64b2b62d9d9803951b945e9f.

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.

For more information

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by Yakun Zhang and Ying Wang of Baidu X-Team.

Risk Scores
Base Score
2.5

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. 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 low impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
2.3

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.19%

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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