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CVE-2022-25972

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the gif2h5 functionality of HDF5 Group libhdf5 1.10.4. A specially-crafted GIF file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• HDF5: 1.10.4

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1485
• https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/4786
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1485

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