CVE-2018-17438

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5

Description

A SIGFPE signal is raised in the function H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library during an attempted parse of a crafted HDF file, because of incorrect protection against division by zero. It could allow a remote denial of service attack.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-17438

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2018-09-24T14:29:01

Last Modified Date
2018-11-09T20:56:25

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-369	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/369.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5::::::::	1	OR		1.10.3

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
6.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/HDF5/vuln4#divided-by-zero---poc_h5d__select_io_h5dselect	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17438
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17438

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:53:17				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 12:30:05	2018-09-24T14:29Z	2018-09-24T14:29:01	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:30:05		2018-11-09T20:56:25	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:30:05		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated