{"answers":{"affected":"28 open source packages ship an affected version, including tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu and tensorflow-gpu. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29541 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade tensorflow to a fixed version for your release line: 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3 or 2.4.2.","what":"CVE-2021-29541 is a low-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, published on 14 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-29541 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-29541 is a low-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, published on 14 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29541 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- tensorflow (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.2.0; fixed in 2.2.3\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.2.0; fixed in 2.2.3\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.3.0; fixed in 2.3.3\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.3.0; fixed in 2.3.3\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.4.0; fixed in 2.4.2\n- tensorflow (PyPI): affected from 2.4.0; fixed in 2.4.2\n- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2\n- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.1.4\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29541/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29541/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-29541","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29541/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-29541","record":{"aliases":["BIT-tensorflow-2021-29541","GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr","PYSEC-2021-178","PYSEC-2021-469","PYSEC-2021-667"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"TensorFlow machine learning library","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An attacker can cause a denial of service in TensorFlow by triggering a null pointer dereference in the StringNGrams operation via invalid input.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"tensorflow","vendor":"google"}],"cvss":{"score":2.5,"severity":"low","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.","ecosystems":["Bitnami","PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`","id":"CVE-2021-29541","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"google:tensorflow","products":["google:tensorflow"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2021"},"n_packages":28,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Heap buffer overflow in 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buffer overflow in `Conv2DBackpropFilter`","id":"CVE-2021-29540"},"products":["tensorflow"],"published":"2021-05-14","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"TensorFlow vulnerable to heap out-of-buffer read in the QuantizeAndDequantize operation","id":"CVE-2023-25668","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-03-24"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Google TensorFlow","id":"CVE-2018-7575","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-04-24"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Arbitrary code execution due to YAML deserialization","id":"CVE-2021-37678","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-08-12"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2021-35958","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-06-30"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Integer truncation in Shard API usage","id":"CVE-2020-15202","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-09-25"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Data leak in 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a denial of service in TensorFlow by triggering a null pointer dereference in the StringNGrams operation via invalid input.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29541/"}