CVE-2018-17437

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

EPSS

1%p69

Published

Sep 24, 2018 (Sep 24, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HDF5 file.

Vendors: hdfgroup
Products: hdf5
Weakness: CWE-772
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.3%)

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