Medium severity · published Aug 5, 2026
CVE-2026-19025
HDF5 divide-by-zero (SIGFPE) via mismatched chunk-layout dimensionality and dataspace rank on dataset open
6.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
H5O__layout_decode in H5Olayout.c in HDF5 through 2.3.0 does not validate that a chunked dataset's stored chunk-layout dimensionality matches its dataspace rank when an existing dataset is opened, whereas this check is performed only at dataset-creation time. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash in H5S__hyper_iter_get_seq_list in src/H5Shyper.c) via a crafted HDF5 file with mismatched chunk/dataspace ranks that is opened and read via H5Dopen2 and H5Dread, e.g. by the h5repack tool.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 7% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HD
HDF5 · The HDF Group
<= 2.3.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19025
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-19025
github.com
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6491
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