A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. Affected by this issue is the function H5FS__sect_find_node of the file H5FSsection.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:15:00 +0000

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Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:45:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. Affected by this issue is the function H5FS__sect_find_node of the file H5FSsection.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Title HDF5 H5FSsection.c H5FS__sect_find_node heap-based overflow
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-122
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-06-19T16:31:06.224Z

Updated: 2025-06-19T16:31:06.224Z

Reserved: 2025-06-19T06:19:17.895Z

Link: CVE-2025-6270

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-06-19T17:15:27.167

Modified: 2025-06-19T17:15:27.167

Link: CVE-2025-6270

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-06-19T16:31:06Z

Links: CVE-2025-6270 - Bugzilla