CVE-2025-2308
CSIRTS triage
- What
- The Scale-Offset Filter decompression function has a heap-based buffer overflow in single-byte processing.
- Who is affected
- Applications using HDF5 library to process files with Scale-Offset filtered datasets.
- Urgency
- Medium; heap overflow can cause crashes or code execution when processing malicious files.
- Action
- Upgrade HDF5 to patched version or disable Scale-Offset filter until patch is available.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.37% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 30% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
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