CVE-2018-13874 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-787) found in the HDF5 1.8.20 library, specifically within the H5FD_sec2_read function, affecting hdfgroup hdf5 products. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.