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Medium 6.8Published Oct 6, 2026

CVE-2026-19029HDF5 scale-offset filter heap buffer over-read via crafted chunk

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It affects The HDF Group HDF5. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

A heap-based buffer over-read in H5Z__filter_scaleoffset() in src/H5Zscaleoffset.c in HDF5 through 2.2.0 lets an attacker cause a denial of service (application crash) with a crafted HDF5 file. When the stored minimum bits equal the full precision of the datatype, the decoder copies d_nelmts * size bytes from the compressed chunk without checking that the chunk holds that many bytes. Both values come from attacker-controlled scale-offset filter parameters in the dataset's filter pipeline message.

CVSS
6.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
HDFG
NVD analysis
Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated
Oct 7, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
The HDF Group HDF5
hdf_group:hdf5 (from the name)
before 2.2.0
CNA record

References

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