CVE-2018-16438

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 8.8
Description
An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. There is an out of bounds read in H5L_extern_query at H5Lexternal.c.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-16438
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-09-04T00:29:02
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-26T15:36:41
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-125 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 8.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/h5stat Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16438
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16438
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:02:41 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:45:01 2018-09-04T00:29Z 2018-09-04T00:29:02 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:45:01 2018-10-26T15:36:41 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:45:01 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated