CVE-2021-45833

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2021-45833 · Published 05/01/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-45833 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting hdf5 (hdfgroup).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.71%, higher than 53.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
hdf5 hdfgroup	`= 1.13.1-1`	No fix yet

Description

A Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability exists in HDF5 1.13.1-1 via the H5D__create_chunk_file_map_hyper function in /hdf5/src/H5Dchunk.c, which causes a Denial of Service (context-dependent).

References

HDFGroup/hdf5 · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

hdf5

hdfgroup

= 1.13.1-1

No fix yet

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