CVE-2018-11206
It could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.74%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An out of bounds read was discovered in H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. It could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.74% probability · 86th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- hdfgroup/hdf5
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/README2.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/README2.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.