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CVE-2020-5215

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5215 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in TensorFlow versions prior to 1.15.2 and 2.0.1. This flaw allows an attacker to trigger a segmentation fault in eager mode by providing a string where a tf.float16 value is expected, either through malicious data points or manipulated saved models. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.15.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.0MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0059 is in the 21st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflowFixed in: 1.15.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflowFixed in: 2.0.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflow-cpuFixed in: 1.15.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflow-cpuFixed in: 2.0.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflow-gpuFixed in: 1.15.2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: tensorflow-gpuFixed in: 2.0.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-977j-xj7q-2jr9low

Segmentation faultin TensorFlow when converting a Python string to `tf.float16`

Jan 28, 2020

References

github.com / tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5ac1b9e24ff6afc465756edf845d2e9660bd34bf
Patch
github.com / tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.15.2
Release Notes
github.com / tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.0.1
Release Notes
github.com / tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-977j-xj7q-2jr9
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory