VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-10811
It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.48%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.48%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.48% probability · 72th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- hdfgroup/hdf5
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.