CVE-2026-17574: medium-severity vulnerability in The HDF Group HDF5
NULL Pointer Dereference in HDF5 via Invalid Variable-Length Datatype Type Tag
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.2epss 0.1%
HDF5 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an attribute with an invalid variable-length datatype type field may cause the application to crash when the attribute is read.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Affected products
The HDF Group · HDF5Related CVEs — The HDF Group HDF5
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