VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-13872
There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5G_ent_decode in H5Gent.c.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.85%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.85%). 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 overflow in the function H5G_ent_decode in H5Gent.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
- 1.85% probability · 78th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- hdfgroup/hdf5
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.