Vulnerability · Published Mar 22, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-10812
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the hdf5 package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in HDF5 through 1.12.0. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function H5F_get_nrefs() located in H5Fquery.c. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | hdf5 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10812 |
| Debian:13 | hdf5 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10812 |
| Debian:14 | hdf5 | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10812 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | hdf5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10812 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | hdf5 | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10812 |