CVE-2022-46290: Openbabel Open Babel

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

Multiple out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities exist in the ORCA format nAtoms 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.The loop that stores the coordinates does not check its index against nAtoms

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