CVE-2024-29157: Hdfgroup HDF5

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a heap buffer overflow in H5HG_read, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

Affected products

• Hdfgroup HDF5: up to and including 1.14.3

Published 2024-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.