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Medium severity · published Mar 22, 2020
CVE-2020-10809
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0
5.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the function Decompress() located in decompress.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to the gif2h5 binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HD
Hdf5 · Hdfgroup
through 1.12.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
HD
Hdf5
Hdfgroup
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10809
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10809
Release Notes
https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
Exploit
https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_1
Exploit
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-overflow-in-decompress-c-hdf5-1-13-0/
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