CVE-2025-2309

March 14, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

5.3
Medium

Description

A vulnerability has been found in HDF5 1.14.6 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function H5T__bit_copy of the component Type Conversion Logic. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The vendor was contacted early about a batch of vulnerabilities. His response was "reject" without further explanation. We have not received an elaboration even after asking politely for further details. Currently we assume that the vendor wants to "dispute" the entries which is why they are flagged as such until further details become available.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Hdf5
  • Hdf5
  • 1.14.6

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a hdf5 hdf5 1.14.6 / / / / / / /

References

https://github.com/madao123123/crash_report/blob/main/hdf5_poc/hdf5_poc3.md
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299722
https://vuldb.com/?id.299722
https://vuldb.com/?submit.514532

Tags

CWE-119
cna@vuldb.com
2025-03-14
CVE-2025-2309

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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Timeline

Published: March 14, 2025, 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified: March 14, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cna@vuldb.com

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