CVE-2025-2153
highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. Affected is the function H5SM_delete of the file H5SM.c of the component h5 File Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 0.6–8.1
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affected products (2)
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references (16)
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- https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329cnnvd
- https://github.com/sae-as-me/Crashes/raw/refs/heads/main/hdf5/h5_extended_crash.h5cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2153cnnvd
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299064cnnvd
- https://vuldb.com/?id.299064cnnvd
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.510819cnnvd
- https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/sae-as-me/Crashes/raw/refs/heads/main/hdf5/h5_extended_crash.h5enisa_euvd
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