This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-8wq6-qh76-wpv9. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
A flaw has been found in Open Babel up to 3.1.1. Impacted is the function ChemKinFormat::CheckSpecies of the file /src/formats/chemkinformat.cpp. Executing manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been published and may be used.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-119"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-01T17:38:35Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2025-09-26T03:15:43Z",
"severity": "LOW"
}