CVE-2018-17234 is a memory leak vulnerability in the HDF5 library, specifically within the H5O__chunk_deserialize() function, affecting versions through 1.10.3. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted HDF5 file, leading to excessive memory consumption. Rated 6.5 MEDIUM on the CVSS scale, it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no confidentiality or integrity impact (C:N, I:N), with high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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