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CVE-2017-17509

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 1.51% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-12-11 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. It affects F5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2017-17509
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
1.51%
F5

Original NVD Description

In HDF5 1.10.1, there is an out of bounds write vulnerability in the function H5G__ent_decode_vec in H5Gcache.c in libhdf5.a. For example, h5dump would crash or possibly have unspecified other impact someone opens a crafted hdf5 file.

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