What is GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w?

GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w 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 (second variant)

Why does GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w 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-wj42-v2p3-fq2w?

GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w?

GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w affects 1 product, including: pip/openbabel:\u003c 3.2.0.

⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories

Withdrawn: July 1, 2026

GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2wCriticalCVSS 9.8Disclosed before NVD

Duplicate Advisory: Open Babel has out-of-bounds write in ORCA nAtoms parser (second variant)

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This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-5rff-8f7c-8jmw. 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.The loop that stores the coordinates does not check its index against nAtoms

🎯 Affected products1

pip/openbabel:< 3.2.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46290
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1665
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1665
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wj42-v2p3-fq2w