CVE-2022-44451

Publication date 21 July 2023

Last updated 26 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openbabel	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

bruce

No patch available as of 2025-02-26 https://github.com/openbabel/openbabel/issues/2650 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059277

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H