What is CVE-2018-14033?

CVE-2018-14033 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-07-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-14033?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-14033 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Out-of-bounds Read in Hdfgroup Hdf5

CVE-2018-14033

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_layout_decode in H5Olayout.c, related to HDmemcpy.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.016 (72.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hdfgroup Hdf5 — versions 1.8.20
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

xiaoqx/pocs

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14033?: CVE-2018-14033 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-07-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-14033?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-14033 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.