A vulnerability was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function H5O__cache_chk_serialize of the file src/H5Ocache.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Hdfgroup
  • Hdf5

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5384 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2926 cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.301901 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.301901 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.521246 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2926 cve-icon
History

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hdfgroup
Hdfgroup hdf5
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Hdfgroup
Hdfgroup hdf5

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Low

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function H5O__cache_chk_serialize of the file src/H5Ocache.c. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Title HDF5 H5Ocache.c H5O__cache_chk_serialize null pointer dereference
Weaknesses CWE-404
CWE-476
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-28T20:22:50.493Z

Reserved: 2025-03-28T11:56:29.079Z

Link: CVE-2025-2926

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-28T20:22:46.517Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-03-28T20:15:26.980

Modified: 2025-04-17T14:31:21.250

Link: CVE-2025-2926

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-03-28T20:00:13Z

Links: CVE-2025-2926 - Bugzilla