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CVE-2018-14031

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14031 is a high-severity heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability affecting HDF HDF5 library version 1.8.20. This flaw, residing in the H5T_copy function within H5T.c, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.8, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 14,824 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 0.1 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-2018-14031Low

hdf5: heap-based buffer over-read in the function H5T_copy in H5T.c

Jul 10, 2018

References

github.com / TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/README2.md
Third Party Advisory