What is GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2?

GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in ORCA nAtoms parser

Why does GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2 have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2?

GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2?

GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2 affects 1 product, including: pip/openbabel:\u003c 3.2.0.

⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories

Withdrawn: July 1, 2026

GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2CriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in ORCA nAtoms parser

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 21, 2023

Last Modified

July 1, 2026

📋 Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-rj4c-r689-cm87. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

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.nAtoms calculation wrap-around, leading to a small buffer allocation

🎯 Affected products1

pip/openbabel:< 3.2.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46289
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1665
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1665
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g8f4-g673-rfw2