CVE-2021-41213

high
Published 2021-11-10 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code behind `tf.function` API can be made to deadlock when two `tf.function` decorated Python functions are mutually recursive. This occurs due to using a non-reentrant `Lock` Python object. Loading any model which contains mutually recursive functions is vulnerable. An attacker can cause denial of service by causing users to load such models and calling a recursive `tf.function`, although this is not a frequent scenario. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

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-2021-41213

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow<afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0afac8158d43691661ad083f6dd9e56f327c1dcb7

References

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