SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-mmq6-q8r3-48fm)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417043

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a denial of
service via `CHECK`-fail in `tf.strings.substr` with invalid arguments. 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. (CVE-2021-29617)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mmq6-q8r3-48fm

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 417043

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2

Threat Score: 1.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29617

cwe: CWE-755