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SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-977j-xj7q-2jr9)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422233

Description

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

 - In TensorFlow before 1.15.2 and 2.0.1, converting a string (from Python) to a tf.float16 value results in
 a segmentation fault in eager mode as the format checks for this use case are only in the graph mode. This
 issue can lead to denial of service in inference/training where a malicious attacker can send a data point
 which contains a string instead of a tf.float16 value. Similar effects can be obtained by manipulating
 saved models and checkpoints whereby replacing a scalar tf.float16 value with a scalar string will trigger
 this issue due to automatic conversions. This can be easily reproduced by tf.constant("hello",
 tf.float16), if eager execution is enabled. This issue is patched in TensorFlow 1.15.1 and 2.0.1 with this
 vulnerability patched. TensorFlow 2.1.0 was released after we fixed the issue, thus it is not affected.
 Users are encouraged to switch to TensorFlow 1.15.1, 2.0.1 or 2.1.0. (CVE-2020-5215)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-977j-xj7q-2jr9

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 422233

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5215

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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: 1

Threat Score: 0.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5215

cwe: CWE-754