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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-13871 json

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library.

published 2018-07-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-5805

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5FL_blk_malloc in H5FL.c.

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-2018-13871 updated cvss 5.3

hdf5: heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5FL_blk_malloc in H5FL.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”

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Exploit prediction

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% 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

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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