# CVE-2026-92627: Heap Use-After-Free in H5T\_\_conv\_f\_f

- Severity: CVSS 4.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14.2
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-17

## Affected

- The HDF Group HDF5: fixed in 1.14.2

## Description

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability exists in H5T__conv_f_f() in src/H5Tconv.c in HDF5 before 1.14.2. When converting a compound datatype containing floating-point members during a dataset read, a temporary buffer allocated with calloc() is freed and subsequently read from within the same conversion routine. An attacker who can supply a crafted HDF5 file containing a specially constructed compound datatype can trigger the use-after-free when the file is parsed by an application that reads the affected dataset, such as h5dump. This can result in a crash and, depending on heap layout and allocator behavior, may be exploitable for further memory corruption up to remote code execution.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The HDF Group HDF5, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/hdf5-memory-corruption

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