# CVE-2022-23590: Crash due to erroneous \`StatusOr\` in Tensorflow

- Also known as: PYSEC-2022-154, BIT-TENSORFLOW-2022-23590, GHSA-PQRV-8R2F-7278, PYSEC-2022-99, PYSEC-2026-3225
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.0, 2.7.1
- Published: 2022-02-04 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- tensorflow: from 2.7.0, fixed in 2.8.0
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.7.1
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.7.1
- tensorflow (PyPI): fixed in 2.7.1
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.7.1
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.7.1

## Description

Tensorflow is an Open Source Machine Learning Framework. A `GraphDef` from a TensorFlow `SavedModel` can be maliciously altered to cause a TensorFlow process to crash due to encountering a `StatusOr` value that is an error and forcibly extracting the value from it. We have patched the issue in multiple GitHub commits and these will be included in TensorFlow 2.8.0 and TensorFlow 2.7.1, as both are affected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tensorflow, tensorflow-gpu, tensorflow-cpu, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.0, 2.7.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-pqrv-8r2f-7278
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/955059813cc325dc1db5e2daa6221271406d4439
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/274df9b02330b790aa8de1cee164b70f72b9b244/tensorflow/core/graph/graph.cc#L560-L567

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