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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-13868

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.54%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.54% probability · 74th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
hdfgroup/hdf5
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.