CVE-2025-2153 – Apache HDF5 Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-2153 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Mar. 10, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CWE CWE-122
    Added Reference https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5329
    Added Reference https://github.com/sae-as-me/Crashes/raw/refs/heads/main/hdf5/h5_extended_crash.h5
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299064
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.299064
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.510819
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