Security advisory

{
  "id": "72cb854025841ac99482a98e263e1846cade336f5f4194e13de7770cd7688020",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4331",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-4331",
    "summary": "When decoding data out of a dataset encoded with the H5Z_NBIT decoding, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will fail to ensure that the precision is within the bounds of the size leading to arbitrary code execution.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-4331",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-4331",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-4331"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/hdfgroup/hdf5",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "28cd632b8d7a280b44cc4d2e18a01a0319d0275d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hdfgroup:hdf5:1.8.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.8.16"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.8.16"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.8.16",
            "hdf5-1_8_16"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4331.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:47.887262700Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-13"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-4331",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436636,
  "published_at": "2016-11-18T20:59:02.24+00:00"
}