CVE-2021-41227

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:H/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the `ImmutableConst` operation in TensorFlow can be tricked into reading arbitrary memory contents. This is because the `tstring` TensorFlow string class has a special case for memory mapped strings but the operation itself does not offer any support for this datatype. 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-2021-41227

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-cpu<1cb6bb6c2a6019417c9adaf9e6843ba75ee2580b||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.03712a2d3455e6ccb924daa5724a3652a86f6b585
python PyPItensorflow<1cb6bb6c2a6019417c9adaf9e6843ba75ee2580b||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.03712a2d3455e6ccb924daa5724a3652a86f6b585
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<1cb6bb6c2a6019417c9adaf9e6843ba75ee2580b||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.03712a2d3455e6ccb924daa5724a3652a86f6b585

References

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