CVE-2022-44451: Openbabel Open Babel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the MSI format atom 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

• Openbabel Open Babel: version 3.1.1 only

Published 2023-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.