{"id":"CVE-2024-29161","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-29161","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:53:02.771Z","title":"HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5A__attr_release_table, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.","description":"HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5A__attr_release_table, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.","published":"2024-05-14T15:15:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:22:32.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-122"],"affected":["hdfgroup/hdf5"],"epss":{"score":0.0086,"percentile":0.58241,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.hdfgroup.org/2024/05/new-hdf5-cve-issues-fixed-in-1-14-4/","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.hdfgroup.org/2024/05/new-hdf5-cve-issues-fixed-in-1-14-4/","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29161","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."}