Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42885

CriticalPublic PoC

Published: 21 July 2023

Published
21 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0019 40.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42885 is a critical-severity Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824) vulnerability in Openbabel Open Babel. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A use of uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the GRO format res 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…

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trigger this vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-824

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

openbabel
open babel
3.1.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References