What is GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v?

GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in MOL2 attribute/value parser

Why does GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v 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-qghv-8h77-699v?

GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v?

GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v affects 1 product, including: pip/openbabel:\u003c 3.2.0.

⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories

Withdrawn: July 1, 2026

GHSA-qghv-8h77-699vHighCVSS 8.1Disclosed before NVD

Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in MOL2 attribute/value 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This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-vjg6-gm8m-v5g6. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the MOL2 format attribute and value 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.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/openbabel:< 3.2.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43607
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1664
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1664
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qghv-8h77-699v