CVE-2018-17432: Hdfgroup HDF5

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer dereference in H5O_sdspace_encode() in H5Osdspace.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HDF5 file.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: up to and including 1.10.3

Published 2018-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.