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CVE-2018-17237

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17237 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the HDF5 library (versions up to 1.10.3) that can lead to a denial of service. An attacker can trigger a division-by-zero error in the H5D__chunk_set_info_real() function by providing a specially crafted HDF file, causing the application to crash. While the attack complexity is low and no authentication is required, user interaction is necessary for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 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)

redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)Fixed in: hdf5
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 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: hdf5
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)Fixed in: hdf5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-17237Low

hdf5: SIGFPE signal in H5D__chunk_set_info_real() of H5Dchunk.c

Sep 5, 2018

References

github.com / SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/HDF5/README.md
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00009.html