# CVE-2022-23592: Out of bounds read in Tensorflow

- Also known as: GHSA-VQ36-27G6-P492, BIT-TENSORFLOW-2022-23592, PYSEC-2022-101, PYSEC-2022-156, PYSEC-2026-3249
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.0
- Published: 2022-02-04 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- tensorflow: 2.8.0-rc0
- tensorflow (PyPI): from 2.8.0-rc0, fixed in 2.8.0
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): from 2.8.0-rc0, fixed in 2.8.0
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): from 2.8.0-rc0, fixed in 2.8.0
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): from 2.7.0, fixed in 2.8.0
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): from 2.7.0, fixed in 2.8.0

## Description

Tensorflow is an Open Source Machine Learning Framework. TensorFlow's type inference can cause a heap out of bounds read as the bounds checking is done in a `DCHECK` (which is a no-op during production). An attacker can control the `input_idx` variable such that `ix` would be larger than the number of values in `node_t.args`. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.8.0. This is the only affected version.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-vq36-27g6-p492
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/c99d98cd189839dcf51aee94e7437b54b31f8abd
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/274df9b02330b790aa8de1cee164b70f72b9b244/tensorflow/core/graph/graph.cc#L223-L229

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