CVE-2025-2308 (GCVE-0-2025-2308)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-14 20:31 – Updated: 2025-05-08 08:58
VLAI?
Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. This affects the function H5Z__scaleoffset_decompress_one_byte of the component Scale-Offset Filter. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor plans to fix this issue in an upcoming release.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a HDF5 Affected: 1.14.6
Credits
NPU Unmanned Systems Safety Laboratory (VulDB User)
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