CVE-2026-19025 PUBLISHED

HDF5 divide-by-zero (SIGFPE) via mismatched chunk-layout dimensionality and dataspace rank on dataset open

Assigner: HDFG
Reserved: 05.08.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 06.08.2026

H5O__layout_decode in H5Olayout.c in HDF5 through 2.3.0 does not validate that a chunked dataset's stored chunk-layout dimensionality matches its dataspace rank when an existing dataset is opened, whereas this check is performed only at dataset-creation time. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash in H5S__hyper_iter_get_seq_list in src/H5Shyper.c) via a crafted HDF5 file with mismatched chunk/dataspace ranks that is opened and read via H5Dopen2 and H5Dread, e.g. by the h5repack tool.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 6.8

Product Status

Vendor The HDF Group
Product HDF5
Versions Default: unaffected
  • Version <= 2.3.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-369 Divide by zero CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-165 File Manipulation