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CVE-2025-2310

Published: Mar 14, 2025

Modified: May 8, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability was found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function H5MM_strndup of the component Metadata Attribute Decoder. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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-299723 | HDF5 Metadata Attribute Decoder H5MM_strndup heap-based overflow

vdb-entry

technical-description

VDB-299723 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)

signature

permissions-required

Submit #514533 | HDFGroup hdf5 v1.14.6 Buffer Overflow

third-party-advisory

https://github.com/madao123123/crash_report/blob/main/hdf5_poc/hdf5_poc4.md

exploit

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