diff --git a/CMake/mitkFunctionGetLibrarySearchPaths.cmake b/CMake/mitkFunctionGetLibrarySearchPaths.cmake
index 54b5f12..6208c67 100644
--- a/CMake/mitkFunctionGetLibrarySearchPaths.cmake
+++ b/CMake/mitkFunctionGetLibrarySearchPaths.cmake
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ function(mitkFunctionGetLibrarySearchPaths search_path intermediate_dir)
 
   if(MITK_USE_HDF5)
     FIND_PACKAGE(HDF5 COMPONENTS C HL NO_MODULE REQUIRED shared)
-    get_target_property(_location hdf5-shared LOCATION)
+    get_target_property(_location hdf5::hdf5-shared LOCATION)
     get_filename_component(_location ${_location} PATH)
     list(APPEND _additional_paths ${_location})
 
diff --git a/CMakeExternals/HDF5.cmake b/CMakeExternals/HDF5.cmake
index 1c94385..f83f17b 100644
--- a/CMakeExternals/HDF5.cmake
+++ b/CMakeExternals/HDF5.cmake
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ if(MITK_USE_HDF5)
     # bad :( This would be fixed by using an external HDF-Installation with ITK/VTK
 
     ExternalProject_Add(${proj}
-       URL ${MITK_THIRDPARTY_DOWNLOAD_PREFIX_URL}/hdf5-1.8.17.tar.gz
-       URL_MD5 7d572f8f3b798a628b8245af0391a0ca
+       URL https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current18/src/hdf5-1.8.19.tar
+       URL_HASH SHA1=2ef3c50d69a9e5765c745f1b5b46d231470b0b8e
        CMAKE_GENERATOR ${gen}
        CMAKE_ARGS
          ${ep_common_args}