CVE-2020-10811

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function H5O__layout_decode() located in H5Olayout.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-buffer-overflow-in-h5olayout-c-hdf5-1-13-0/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 22, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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