CVE-2021-41215

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 shape inference code for `DeserializeSparse` can trigger a null pointer dereference. This is because the shape inference function assumes that the `serialize_sparse` tensor is a tensor with positive rank (and having `3` as the last dimension). 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-2021-41215

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<d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0d3738dd70f1c9ceb547258cbb82d853da8771850

References

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