What is CVE-2022-41889?

CVE-2022-41889 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-11-18.

How severe is CVE-2022-41889?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-41889 known to be exploited?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Google Tensorflow

CVE-2022-41889

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. If a list of quantized tensors is assigned to an attribute, the pywrap code fails to parse the tensor and returns a `nullptr`, which is not caught. An example can be seen in `tf.compat.v1.extract_volume_patches` by passing in quantized tensors as input `ksizes`. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit e9e95553e5411834d215e6770c81a83a3d0866ce. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.11. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.10.1, 2.9.3, and TensorFlow 2.8.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Published 2022-11-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (35.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 35.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Google Tensorflow
Tensorflow — versions >= 2.10.0, < 2.10.1, >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.3, < 2.8.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-xxcj-rhqg-m46g (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/e9e95553e5411834d215e6770c81a83a3d0866ce (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/core/kernels/image/gene… (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-41889?: CVE-2022-41889 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Tensorflow, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-11-18.
How severe is CVE-2022-41889?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-41889 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.