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CVE-2018-15671

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15671 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting HDF HDF5 library version 1.10.2. It stems from excessive stack consumption in the H5P__get_cb() function when parsing a specially crafted HDF file. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction to open the malicious file, leading to a complete denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0106 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky)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 OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: hdf5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-15671Moderate

hdf5: Excessive stack consumption in the function H5P__get_cb() resulting in a denial of service

Aug 18, 2018

References

github.com / SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5
ExploitThird Party Advisory