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CVE-2018-13872

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function H5G_ent_decode in H5Gent.c.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.8.20

References

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5

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