🛡️ GHSA-vx29-rwgr-834p — openbabel (CVE-2022-43467)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-119 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in PQS coord_file parser

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-f29h-2h58-48r7. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the PQS format coord_file functionality of Open Babel 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-vx29-rwgr-834p is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

GHSA-vx29-rwgr-834p is recorded against 1 package.

  • openbabel (fixed in 3.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 July 2023 and last revised on 1 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
talosintelligence.com (Web)
www.talosintelligence.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-119
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-07-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openbabel — 3.2.0

Similar Threats

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