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CVE-2022-23579: `CHECK`-failures during Grappler's `SafeToRemoveIdentity` in Tensorflow

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

Tensorflow is an Open Source Machine Learning Framework. The Grappler optimizer in TensorFlow can be used to cause a denial of service by altering a `SavedModel` such that `SafeToRemoveIdentity` would trigger `CHECK` failures. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.8.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.7.1, TensorFlow 2.6.3, and TensorFlow 2.5.3, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Affected products

• tensorflow: through 2.5.2; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.2; 2.7.0

References

• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a1320ec1eac186da1d03f033109191f715b2b130/tensorflow/core/grappler/optimizers/dependency_optimizer.cc#L59-L98
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/92dba16749fae36c246bec3f9ba474d9ddeb7662
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-5f2r-qp73-37mr
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a1320ec1eac186da1d03f033109191f715b2b130/tensorflow/core/grappler/optimizers/dependency_optimizer.cc#L59-L98
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/92dba16749fae36c246bec3f9ba474d9ddeb7662
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-5f2r-qp73-37mr

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