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CVE-2018-13868

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-13868 is a critical heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library, specifically within the H5O_fill_old_decode function in H5Ofill.c. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating potential interest from threat actors.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: hdf5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-13868Low

hdf5: heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c

Jul 10, 2018

References

github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5
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