CVE-2025-6818

Publication date 28 June 2025

Last updated 16 January 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in HDF5 1.14.6. Affected is the function H5O__chunk_protect of the file /src/H5Ochunk.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Upstream rates this as being low severity

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
hdf5 25.10 questing
Vulnerable
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


ebarretto

It seems to be the same fix of CVE-2025-6816, CVE-2025-6856 and CVE-2025-2923

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.3 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L