๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-17573

UNKNOWN 0.0

Double Free in H5D__chunk_copy() in HDF5 via a Crafted Chunk-Index Size Field

CVSS Score
0.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A double free vulnerability was discovered in the HDF5 library. Processing a crafted HDF5 file containing an oversized chunk size field via h5repack may cause the application to abort due to a double free.

CWE CWE-415
Vendor the hdf group
Product hdf5
Published Jul 27, 2026
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Affected Versions

The HDF Group / HDF5
<= 2.1.1

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/6124