Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-21738

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 03 February 2022

Published
03 February 2022
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.7th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-21738 is a medium-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Google Tensorflow. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Deep Learning Frameworks.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Tensorflow is an Open Source Machine Learning Framework. The implementation of `SparseCountSparseOutput` can be made to crash a TensorFlow process by an integer overflow whose result is then used in a memory allocation. The fix will be included in TensorFlow…

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2.8.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.7.1, TensorFlow 2.6.3, and TensorFlow 2.5.3, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

CWE(s)
CWE-190

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Deep Learning Frameworks
Risk Domain
N/A
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: tensorflow, machine learning, tensorflow, tensorflow, tensorflow, tensorflow, tensorflow

Related Threats

Affected Assets

google
tensorflow
2.7.0 · ≤ 2.5.2 · 2.6.0 — 2.6.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References