CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-37688

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 12, 2021 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can craft a TFLite model that would trigger a null pointer dereference, which would result in a crash and denial of service. The implementation unconditionally dereferences a pointer. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 15691e456c7dc9bd6be203b09765b063bf4a380c. 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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
TensorflowGoogle2.3.0 (including)2.3.4 (excluding)
TensorflowGoogle2.4.0 (including)2.4.3 (excluding)
TensorflowGoogle2.5.0 (including)2.5.0 (including)
TensorflowGoogle2.6.0-rc0 (including)2.6.0-rc0 (including)
TensorflowGoogle2.6.0-rc1 (including)2.6.0-rc1 (including)
TensorflowGoogle2.6.0-rc2 (including)2.6.0-rc2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References