Vulnerability · Published Aug 12, 2021 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2021-37640Integer division by 0 in sparse reshaping in TensorFlow

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in tensorflow from tensorflow. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the implementation of `tf.raw_ops.SparseReshape` can be made to trigger an integral division by 0 exception. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8d72537c6abf5a44103b57b9c2e22c14f5f49698/tensorflow/core/kernels/reshape_util.cc#L176-L181) calls the reshaping functor whenever there is at least an index in the input but does not check that shape of the input or the target shape have both a non-zero number of elements. The [reshape functor](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8d72537c6abf5a44103b57b9c2e22c14f5f49698/tensorflow/core/kernels/reshape_util.cc#L40-L78) blindly divides by the dimensions of the target shape. Hence, if this is not checked, code will result in a division by 0. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 4923de56ec94fff7770df259ab7f2288a74feb41. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1 as this is the other affected version.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
PyPItensorflow2.3.4, 2.4.3PYSEC-2021-262
PyPItensorflow2.3.4GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow2.4.3GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow2.5.1GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-cpu2.4.3GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-cpu2.3.4, 2.4.3PYSEC-2021-553
PyPItensorflow-cpu2.3.4GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-cpu2.5.1GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-gpu2.3.4, 2.4.3PYSEC-2021-751
PyPItensorflow-gpu2.3.4GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-gpu2.4.3GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88
PyPItensorflow-gpu2.5.1GHSA-95xm-g58g-3p88

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
tensorflow tensorflow < 2.5.1

Weakness: CWE-369 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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