CVE-2025-2308 Information

Description

A vulnerability which was classified as critical was found in HDF5 1.14.6. This affects the function H5Z__scaleoffset_decompress_one_byte of the component Scale-Offset Filter. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor was contacted early about a batch of vulnerabilities. His response was eject\ without further explanation. We have not received an elaboration even after asking politely for further details. Currently we assume that the vendor wants to \dispute\ the entries which is why they are flagged as such until further details become available.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/madao123123/crash_report/blob/main/hdf5_poc/hdf5_poc2.md https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299721 https://vuldb.com/?id.299721 https://vuldb.com/?submit.514531

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

5.3