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CVE-2018-16438

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in H5L_extern_query at H5Lexternal.c.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.8.20

References

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat

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