Summary A memory-safety vulnerability in Open Babel's PQS parser caused an uninitialized pointer dereference when reading a crafted input file. Details The flaw was in the pFormat handling of the PQS reader. A malformed…
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-46280 |
| Vendor | pip |
| Affected Product | openbabel |
| Vulnerability Type | Vulnerability |
| CVSS Score | 7.8 (HIGH) |
| Actively Exploited | ❌ No known exploitation |
| Patch Status | See Vendor Advisory → |
| Reported By | CYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories) |
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uninitialized pointer dereference when reading a crafted input file.
pFormat handling of the PQS reader. A malformedinput caused the parser to dereference a format pointer that had never been initialized.
file formats; it is shipped by Linux distributions and embedded in services that may parse untrusted input. Triggering this vulnerability requires the victim to open a malicious PQS file with the obabel tool, the OBConversion API, or any of the language bindings (Python, Ruby, Java, R, Perl, C#, PHP).
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