CVE-2017-17507

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.2%

Medium (6.5) in hdfgroup hdf5. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds read vulnerability in the function H5T_conv_struct_opt in H5Tconv.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash when someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-12-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

hdfgroup:hdf5

References

https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md
https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/hdf5/readme.md

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