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CVE-2025-2308

Published: Mar 14, 2025

Modified: May 8, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

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 vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	HDF5	affected `1.14.6`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

References

VDB-299721 | HDF5 Scale-Offset Filter H5Z__scaleoffset_decompress_one_byte heap-based overflow

vdb-entry

technical-description

VDB-299721 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)

signature

permissions-required

Submit #514531 | HDFGroup hdf5 v1.14.6 Buffer Overflow

third-party-advisory

https://github.com/madao123123/crash_report/blob/main/hdf5_poc/hdf5_poc2.md

exploit

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