{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16438 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2018-16438 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5, published on 4 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-16438 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-16438 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hdfgroup Hdf5, published on 4 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16438 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Hdfgroup Hdf5. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16438/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16438/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-16438","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16438/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-16438","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16438","ECHO-748a-b087-8819","GHSA-9xmm-cpf8-rgmx","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2018-16438","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16438"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"HDF5 library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An out-of-bounds read in the HDF5 library allows attackers to disclose sensitive memory contents via crafted files.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"hdf5","vendor":"hdfgroup"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 library. 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