CVE-2018-11206: hdfgroup hdf5 Out-of-bounds Read
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-11206 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in hdfgroup hdf5. EPSS estimates a 2.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Duplicates 1 · Related 5Timeline
- 16-05-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An out of bounds read was discovered in H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c in the HDF HDF5 1.10.2 library. It could allow a remote denial of service or information disclosure attack.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
2.74%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
86%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.05 pp
From 2.79% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundFuzzing Pocs
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Alpine1 product
- hdf5< 1.12.1-r0
Debian1 product
- hdf5< 1.10.8+repack-1
Hdfgroup1 product
- hdf51.10.2
Ubuntu1 product
- hdf5All versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 4 products
References
9 links- github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/blob/master/hdf5/README2.mdThird Party Advisory
