CVE-2025-2153
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in HDF5 1.14.6.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.50%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. Affected is the function H5SM_delete of the file H5SM.c of the component h5 File Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
- CVSS 4.0
- 2.3 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.50% probability · 43th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-122, CWE-787
- Affected
- hdfgroup/hdf5
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sae-as-me/Crashes/raw/refs/heads/main/hdf5/h5_extended_crash.h5Exploit
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299064Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.299064Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.510819Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.