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CVE-2025-2915

Published: Mar 28, 2025

Modified: Jul 24, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

3.3

LOW

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. This vulnerability affects the function H5F__accum_free of the file src/H5Faccum.c. The manipulation of the argument overlap_size leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	HDF5	affected `1.14.0` affected `1.14.1` affected `1.14.2` affected `1.14.3` affected `1.14.4` +2 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

VDB-301888 | HDF5 H5Faccum.c H5F__accum_free heap-based overflow

vdb-entry

technical-description

VDB-301888 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)

signature

permissions-required

Submit #520899 | https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5 HDF5 v1.14.6 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

third-party-advisory

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5380

exploit

issue-tracking

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