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SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-whr9-vfh2-7hm6)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419950

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. The implementation of
 `tf.raw_ops.MaxPoolGradWithArgmax` can cause reads outside of bounds of heap allocated data if attacker
 supplies specially crafted inputs. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/31bd50
 26304677faa8a0b77602c6154171b9aec1/tensorflow/core/kernels/image/draw_bounding_box_op.cc#L116-L130)
 assumes that the last element of `boxes` input is 4, as required by [the
 op](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/raw_ops/DrawBoundingBoxesV2). Since this is not checked
 attackers passing values less than 4 can write outside of bounds of heap allocated objects and cause
 memory corruption. If the last dimension in `boxes` is less than 4, accesses similar to `tboxes(b, bb, 3)`
 will access data outside of bounds. Further during code execution there are also writes to these indices.
 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-2021-29571)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-whr9-vfh2-7hm6

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 419950

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: 57.15

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-2021-29571

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:L/VI:L/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-2021-29571

cwe: CWE-787