CVE-2018-13873 is a critical buffer over-read vulnerability affecting the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library, specifically within the H5O_chunk_deserialize function in H5Ocache.c. This flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction, and leading to high impacts on 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, with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.