CVE-2022-44451 is a high-severity use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability affecting Open Babel versions 3.1.1 and master commit 530dbfa3, specifically within its MSI format atom functionality. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, malformed file, leading to arbitrary code execution on the victim's system. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction (UI:R), but can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| 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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.