Security Fixes & Hardening
This release introduces critical security hardening for model loading and saving, alongside improvements to the JAX backend metadata handling.
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Disallow
TFSMLayerdeserialization insafe_mode(#22035)- Previously,
TFSMLayercould load external TensorFlow SavedModels during deserialization without respecting Kerassafe_mode. This could allow the execution of attacker-controlled graphs during model invocation. TFSMLayernow enforcessafe_modeby default. Deserialization viafrom_config()will raise aValueErrorunlesssafe_mode=Falseis explicitly passed orkeras.config.enable_unsafe_deserialization()is called.
- Previously,
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Fix Denial of Service (DoS) in
KerasFileEditor(#21880)- Introduces validation for HDF5 dataset metadata to prevent "shape bomb" attacks.
- Hardens the
.kerasfile editor against malicious metadata that could cause dimension overflows or unbounded memory allocation (unbounded numpy allocation of multi-gigabyte tensors).
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Block External Links in HDF5 files (#22057)
- Keras now explicitly disallows external links within HDF5 files during loading. This prevents potential security risks where a weight file could point to external system datasets.
- Includes improved verification for H5 Groups and Datasets to ensure they are local and valid.
Backend-specific Improvements (JAX)
- Set
mutable=Trueby default innnx_metadata(#22074)- Updated the JAX backend logic to ensure that variables are treated as mutable by default in
nnx_metadata. - This makes Keras 3.13.2 compatible with Flax 0.12.3 when the Keras NNX integration is enabled.
- Updated the JAX backend logic to ensure that variables are treated as mutable by default in
Saving & Serialization
- Improved H5IOStore Integrity (#22057)
- Refactored
H5IOStoreandShardedH5IOStoreto remove unused, unverified methods. - Fixed key-ordering logic in sharded HDF5 stores to ensure consistent state loading across different environments.
- Refactored
Contributors
We would like to thank the following contributors for their security reports and code improvements:
@0xManan, @HyperPS, @hertschuh, and @divyashreepathihalli.
Full Changelog: v3.13.1...v3.13.2