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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.299064
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299064
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.510819
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329
Scores
CVSS v3
5.0
EPSS
0.0012
EPSS Percentile
30.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-119
CWE-122
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (1)
hdfgroup/hdf5
1.14.6
Published
Mar 10, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026