CVE-2023-27579: TensorFlow has Floating Point Exception in TFLite in conv kernel

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-697

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Constructing a tflite model with a paramater `filter_input_channel` of less than 1 gives a FPE. This issue has been patched in version 2.12. TensorFlow will also cherrypick the fix commit on TensorFlow 2.11.1.

Affected products

tensorflow: before 2.12.0 — fixed in 2.12.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: tensorflow 2.12.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/34f8368c535253f5c9cb3a303297743b62442aaa
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-5w96-866f-6rm8
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/34f8368c535253f5c9cb3a303297743b62442aaa
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-5w96-866f-6rm8

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