CVE-2020-10812

low-risk
Published 2020-03-22

An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5F_get_nrefs() located in H5Fquery.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Do I need to act?

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0.17% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Hdfgroup

References (6)

Release Notes https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/REL...
Exploit https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_4
Exploit https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5fquery-c-hdf5-...
Release Notes https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5/browse/release_docs/REL...
Exploit https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/hdf5-reports/tree/master/Vuln_4
Exploit https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-in-h5fquery-c-hdf5-...
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal