This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-55f6-pf8r-c2f4. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Multiple out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities exist in the translationVectors parsing functionality in multiple supported formats 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.This vulnerability affects the MOPAC file format, inside the Unit Cell Translation section
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-119",
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-06T16:38:09Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2023-07-21T21:15:10Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL"
}