CVE-2022-42885 is a high-severity use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability in Open Babel 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3, specifically within the GRO format res functionality. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, malformed file, leading to arbitrary code execution on the affected system. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability carries a high impact for confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it's not on the KEV catalog, it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbabel:open_babel:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.