What is CVE-2021-35958?

CVE-2021-35958 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2021-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2021-35958?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-35958 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Path Traversal in Google Tensorflow

CVE-2021-35958

TensorFlow through 2.5.0 allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted archive when tf.keras.utils.get_file is used with extract=True. NOTE: the vendor's position is that tf.keras.utils.get_file is not intended for untrusted…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.019 (77.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Google Tensorflow
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-35958?: CVE-2021-35958 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2021-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2021-35958?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-35958 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.