CVE-2020-26271

critical
Published 2020-12-10 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

In affected versions of TensorFlow under certain cases, loading a saved model can result in accessing uninitialized memory while building the computation graph. The MakeEdge function creates an edge between one output tensor of the src node (given by output_index) and the input slot of the dst node (given by input_index). This is only possible if the types of the tensors on both sides coincide, so the function begins by obtaining the corresponding DataType values and comparing these for equality. However, there is no check that the indices point to inside of the arrays they index into. Thus, this can result in accessing data out of bounds of the corresponding heap allocated arrays. In most scenarios, this can manifest as unitialized data access, but if the index points far away from the boundaries of the arrays this can be used to leak addresses from the library. This is fixed in versions 1.15.5, 2.0.4, 2.1.3, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, and 2.4.0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26271

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.4.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow<0cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b||>=2.3.0,<2.3.20cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<0cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b||>=2.3.0,<2.3.20cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<0cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b||>=2.3.0,<2.3.20cc38aaa4064fd9e79101994ce9872c6d91f816b

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.