CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-10810
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5AC_unpin_entry() located in H5AC.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
Affected configurations
• hdfgroup hdf5 (<= 1.12.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_3 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5ac-c-hdf5-1-13-0/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/RELEASE.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_3 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5ac-c-hdf5-1-13-0/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory