# CVE-2023-25665: TensorFlow has Null Pointer Error in SparseSparseMaximum

- Also known as: GHSA-558H-MQ8X-7Q9G, BIT-TENSORFLOW-2023-25665, PYSEC-2026-1956, PYSEC-2026-3106, PYSEC-2026-3276
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.1
- Published: 2023-03-24 · Updated: 2025-02-19

## Affected

- tensorflow: fixed in 2.11.1
- tensorflow (PyPI): fixed in 2.11.1
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.11.1
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): fixed in 2.11.1

## Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. Prior to versions 2.12.0 and 2.11.1, when `SparseSparseMaximum` is given invalid sparse tensors as inputs, it can give a null pointer error. A fix is included in TensorFlow version 2.12 and version 2.11.1.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-558h-mq8x-7q9g
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5e0ecfb42f5f65629fd7a4edd6c4afe7ff0feb04

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