CVE-2026-19024
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
05/08/2026
Last modified:
05/08/2026
Description
NULL pointer dereference in H5Pget_fill_value in HDF5 before 2.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a dataset whose version 1 or 2 fill value message has the "defined" flag set together with a negative size field, which is not normalized to the library's "undefined" sentinel and reaches H5T_path_find with a NULL datatype.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
8.20
Severity 4.0
HIGH



