6.8

CVE-2026-19025: HDF5 divide-by-zero (SIGFPE) via mismatched chunk-layout dimensionality and dataspace rank on dataset open

Awaiting analysis
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-19025DEBIAN-CVE-2026-19025
Published 05-08-2026Last modified 06-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-19025 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Divide By Zero vulnerability in the hdf group hdf5. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1

Timeline

  1. 05-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

H5O__layout_decode in H5Olayout.c in HDF5 through 2.3.0 does not validate that a chunked dataset's stored chunk-layout dimensionality matches its dataspace rank when an existing dataset is opened, whereas this check is performed only at dataset-creation time. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash in H5S__hyper_iter_get_seq_list in src/H5Shyper.c) via a crafted HDF5 file with mismatched chunk/dataspace ranks that is opened and read via H5Dopen2 and H5Dread, e.g. by the h5repack tool.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.17% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • hdf5All versions (No fix recorded)
The hdf group1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • hdf5All versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links