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SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-8h46-5m9h-7553)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412686

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. If the `splits` argument of
 `RaggedBincount` does not specify a valid
 `SparseTensor`(https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/sparse/SparseTensor), then an attacker can
 trigger a heap buffer overflow. This will cause a read from outside the bounds of the `splits` tensor
 buffer in the implementation of the `RaggedBincount` op(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8b67
 7d79167799f71c42fd3fa074476e0295413a/tensorflow/core/kernels/bincount_op.cc#L430-L446). Before the `for`
 loop, `batch_idx` is set to 0. The attacker sets `splits(0)` to be 7, hence the `while` loop does not
 execute and `batch_idx` remains 0. This then results in writing to `out(-1, bin)`, which is before the
 heap allocated buffer for the output tensor. 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.
 (CVE-2021-29514)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8h46-5m9h-7553

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 412686

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-2021-29514

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: 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: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-2021-29514

cwe: CWE-787