# CVE-2022-23594: Out of bounds read in Tensorflow

- Also known as: GHSA-9X52-887G-FHC2, BIT-TENSORFLOW-2022-23594, PYSEC-2026-3157, PYSEC-2026-3309, PYSEC-2026-752
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.0, 2.7.1
- Published: 2022-02-04 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

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

## Description

Tensorflow is an Open Source Machine Learning Framework. The TFG dialect of TensorFlow (MLIR) makes several assumptions about the incoming `GraphDef` before converting it to the MLIR-based dialect. If an attacker changes the `SavedModel` format on disk to invalidate these assumptions and the `GraphDef` is then converted to MLIR-based IR then they can cause a crash in the Python interpreter. Under certain scenarios, heap OOB read/writes are possible. These issues have been discovered via fuzzing and it is possible that more weaknesses exist. We will patch them as they are discovered.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu, 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-9x52-887g-fhc2
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/274df9b02330b790aa8de1cee164b70f72b9b244/tensorflow/core/ir/importexport

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