PT-2018-12538 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

Published 2018-07-20 · Updated 2023-06-03 · CVE-2018-14460

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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 H5O sdspace decode function, located in the H5Osdspace.c file of the HDF5 library.

Recommendations For version 1.8.20, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as using the affected function H5O sdspace decode may pose a risk. 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:2025-12512

CVE-2018-14460

OESA-2023-1325

OESA-2023-1326

OESA-2023-1328

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_1912-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1912-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1

Affected Products

Debian

Hdf5

Suse

References · 147

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/README3.md · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_apply_filters_h5repack_filters · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/Twi1ight/fuzzing-pocs/tree/master/hdf5 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-12511 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14033 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14460 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01531 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8396 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07611 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-07118 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14460 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01530 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2023-1325 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-07153 · Security Note