Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-29159

Critical

Published: 14 May 2024

Published
14 May 2024
Modified
18 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0047 65.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-29159 is a critical-severity Classic Buffer Overflow (CWE-120) vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 34.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

HDF5 through 1.14.3 contains a buffer overflow in H5Z__filter_scaleoffset, resulting in the corruption of the instruction pointer and causing denial of service or potential code execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-120

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hdfgroup
hdf5
≤ 1.14.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-120

Platform-independent managed code eliminates the need for unchecked native buffer copies that are the root cause of classic buffer overflows.

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