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CVE-2018-21233

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

TensorFlow before 1.7.0 has an integer overflow that causes an out-of-bounds read, possibly causing disclosure of the contents of process memory. This occurs in the DecodeBmp feature of the BMP decoder in core/kernels/decode_bmp_op.cc.

Affected products

• tensorflow: before 1.7.0 — fixed in 1.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: tensorflow 1.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/security/advisory/tfsa-2018-001.md
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/49f73c55d56edffebde4bca4a407ad69c1cae433
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/security/advisory/tfsa-2018-001.md
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/49f73c55d56edffebde4bca4a407ad69c1cae433

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