{"id":"CVE-2018-17233","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-17233","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:21:55.927Z","title":"It could allow a remote denial of service attack.","description":"A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper() of H5Dchunk.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. It could allow a remote denial of service attack.","published":"2018-09-20T06:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:45:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-369"],"affected":["hdfgroup/hdf5"],"epss":{"score":0.01758,"percentile":0.77849,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln2#divided-by-zero---h5d__create_chunk_file_map_hyper_div_zero","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln2#divided-by-zero---h5d__create_chunk_file_map_hyper_div_zero","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17233","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}