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SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-xgc3-m89p-vr3x)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420485

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 heap buffer
 overflow to occur in `Conv2DBackpropFilter`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorf
 low/tensorflow/blob/1b0296c3b8dd9bd948f924aa8cd62f87dbb7c3da/tensorflow/core/kernels/conv_grad_filter_ops.
 cc#L495-L497) computes the size of the filter tensor but does not validate that it matches the number of
 elements in `filter_sizes`. Later, when reading/writing to this buffer, code uses the value computed here,
 instead of the number of elements in the tensor. 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-2021-29540)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgc3-m89p-vr3x

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 420485

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29540

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2021-29540