CVE-2025-2153 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Reference

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329 https://github.com/sae-as-me/Crashes/raw/refs/heads/main/hdf5/h5_extended_crash.h5 https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299064 https://vuldb.com/?id.299064 https://vuldb.com/?submit.510819

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

5.0