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CVE-2022-42885

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-824

Description

A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the GRO format res 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.

Affected products

• Open Babel: 3.1.1

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1668
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1668
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1668

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