CVE-2026-19027 PUBLISHED

HDF5 out-of-bounds heap read in N-Bit filter decompression

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

The H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_byte, H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_nooptype, and H5Z__nbit_decompress_one_atomic functions in H5Znbit.c in HDF5 through 2.3.0 advance a read index into the compressed chunk buffer without bounding it against the buffer's actual size. This allows attackers to cause an out-of-bounds heap read, and in constrained cases disclosure of adjacent heap memory into decompressed dataset values, via a crafted HDF5 file whose N-Bit filter parameters describe more decompressed data than the stored compressed chunk actually contains, triggered via H5Dread, e.g. by the h5ls or h5repack tools.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

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

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds read CWE