CVE-2026-120758

5.5 MEDIUMpublic exploit available

Published 2026-11-03 · Updated 2026-11-03

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NVD description

HDF5 through 2.2.0 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in H5HL_unprotect() in src/H5HL.c. H5HL_protect() pins a single metadata cache entry for a local heap, either the heap prefix or the separate data block, and H5HL_unprotect() unpins it on the final unprotect. When the metadata cache destroys a corrupted local heap entry, H5HL__prfx_dest() unlinks it from the heap by setting heap->prfx or heap->dblk to NULL. A crafted HDF5 file can therefore reach H5HL_unprotect() with no cached object to unpin, and the function passes the NULL pointer to H5AC_unpin_entry(). This causes an assertion failure in debug builds and a NULL pointer dereference and crash in release builds. An attacker who can get a user or application to open and traverse a malicious file can cause a denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Vendors

hdfgroup

Products

hdf5

Public exploit & PoC references

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/6377[Issue Tracking, Patch]

All references

https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/pull/6377

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