CVE-2018-17437: Hdfgroup HDF5

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

Memory leak in the H5O_dtype_decode_helper() function in H5Odtype.c in the HDF HDF5 through 1.10.3 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) 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.