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SCA: security update for tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-wp3c-xw9g-gpcg)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420020

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. Due to lack of validation in
 `tf.raw_ops.SparseDenseCwiseMul`, an attacker can trigger denial of service via `CHECK`-fails or accesses
 to outside the bounds of heap allocated data. Since the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tenso
 rflow/blob/38178a2f7a681a7835bb0912702a134bfe3b4d84/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse_dense_binary_op_shared.
 cc#L68-L80) only validates the rank of the input arguments but no constraints between
 dimensions(https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/raw_ops/SparseDenseCwiseMul), an attacker can
 abuse them to trigger internal `CHECK` assertions (and cause program termination, denial of service) or to
 write to memory outside of bounds of heap allocated tensor buffers. 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-2021-29567)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp3c-xw9g-gpcg

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 420020

Version: Revision 1.4

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-2021-29567

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-2021-29567

cwe: CWE-617