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CVE-2026-19023 (GCVE-0-2026-19023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 22:13 – Updated: 2026-08-06 15:30
VLAI
Title
HDF5 h5dump Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Binary Output of Variable-Length String Datasets
Summary
Untrusted pointer dereference in the render_bin_output function in the h5dump tool in HDF5 before 2.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a variable-length string dataset with more than one element dumped in binary mode, which corrupts the per-element stride calculation and causes subsequent elements to be read from a misaligned offset and dereferenced as a pointer.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-06 13:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-822 - Untrusted pointer dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The HDF Group HDF5 Affected: <= 2.3.0 (custom)
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