PT-2018-13569 · Hdf+2 · Hdf5+2

CVE-2018-16438 · Published 2018-09-04 · Updated 2026-03-29

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 An issue was discovered in the HDF5 library, where there is an out of bounds read in the H5L extern query function at H5Lexternal.c.

Recommendations For version 1.8.20, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, however, 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

CVE-2018-16438

ECHO-748A-B087-8819

OESA-2023-1208

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3827-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3829-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3826-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1

Affected Products

Debian

Hdf5

Suse

References · 46

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2018-16438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3825-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3829-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3826-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16438 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2023-1208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14031 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3828-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3824-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3827-1 · Vendor Advisory