A vulnerability was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function H5FL__blk_gc_list of the file src/H5FL.c. The manipulation of the argument H5FL_blk_head_t leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Hdfgroup
  • Hdf5

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5376 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2913 cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.301886 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?id.301886 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/?submit.520404 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2913 cve-icon
History

Wed, 28 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hdfgroup
Hdfgroup hdf5
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Hdfgroup
Hdfgroup hdf5

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Low

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability was found in HDF5 up to 1.14.6. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function H5FL__blk_gc_list of the file src/H5FL.c. The manipulation of the argument H5FL_blk_head_t leads to use after free. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Title HDF5 H5FL.c H5FL__blk_gc_list use after free
Weaknesses CWE-119
CWE-416
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2025-03-28T16:31:04.298Z

Updated: 2025-03-28T16:43:27.384Z

Reserved: 2025-03-28T11:01:35.448Z

Link: CVE-2025-2913

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-28T16:43:17.130Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-03-28T17:15:30.260

Modified: 2025-05-28T20:37:16.777

Link: CVE-2025-2913

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-03-28T16:31:04Z

Links: CVE-2025-2913 - Bugzilla