CVE-2025-6817
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Excessive resource consumption in H5Centry.c when processing HDF5 cache entries.
- Who is affected
- Applications processing untrusted or malicious HDF5 files.
- Urgency
- Low severity (CVSS 3.3); primarily a denial of service concern with crafted files.
- Action
- Update HDF5 library to version with resource consumption limits in cache entry handling.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.19% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 9% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- lowCVE-2025-6817: HDF5 H5Centry.c H5C__load_entry resource consumptionmsrc · 2026-08-06
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