CVE-2018-13873

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 10, 2018 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHDF5

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a buffer over-read in H5O_chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.8.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.8.20

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-125

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