PT-2018-12238 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2018-07-10 · Updated 2022-06-03 · CVE-2018-13870

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HDF5 version 1.8.20

Description A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the HDF5 library, specifically in the H5O link decode function located in H5Olink.c.

Recommendations For version 1.8.20, consider applying a patch or fix that addresses the heap-based buffer over-read in the H5O link decode function. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-12513

CVE-2018-13870

SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1

Affected Products

Debian

Hdf5

Suse

References · 92

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-13870 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-13870 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-12513 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13870 · Security Note
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se17-bulletin-2025-0923SE17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-13870 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13870 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13870 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/hdf5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13870 · Security Note