Vulnerability in tensorflow (CVE-2021-37661)
Summary
Vulnerability in tensorflow (CVE-2021-37661). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via num_streams. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.5.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause a denial of service in boosted_trees_create_quantile_stream_resource by using negative arguments. The implementation does not validate that num_streams only contains non-negative numbers. In turn, this results in using this value to allocate memory. However, reserve receives an unsigned integer so there is an implicit conversion from a negative value to a large positive unsigned. This results in a crash from the standard library. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 8a84f7a2b5a2b27ecf88d25bad9ac777cd2f7992. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, TensorFlow 2.4.3, and TensorFlow 2.3.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-37661 has been found in tensorflow.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like num_streams over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade tensorflow to 2.5.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "tensorflow CVE-2021-37661" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2021-37661 (tensorflow) — CWE-681
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Attack surface: num_streams / reserve
Patched: 2.5.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-681) exists in tensorflow. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via num_streams.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of tensorflow. Attack surface: num_streams / reserve.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 2.5.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'tensorflow' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'tensorflow' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
tensorflowを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade tensorflow to 2.5.1ステージング環境で 2.5.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
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