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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-13870 json

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-5804

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_link_decode in H5Olink.c.

Patch / fix

  • hdf5 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10.7+repack-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13870

  • suse-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-5.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-openmpi1-hpc SLE Module for HPC 12 1.10.8-3.12.2
  • suse-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 0.5.20220206.0c6b168-150000.11.3.1
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mpich-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3
  • hdf5_1_10_8-gnu-mvapich2-hpc SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS 1.10.8-150000.8.4.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1933-1SUSE-SU-2022:1911-1SUSE-SU-2022:1910-1SUSE-SU-2022:1903-1

  • hdf5 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 1.12.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-13870

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-13870 updated cvss 5.3

hdf5: heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_link_decode in H5Olink.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 hdf5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) hdf5
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) hdf5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) hdf5
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) hdf5 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky) hdf5
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Sources

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