CVE-2025-10997CWE-119CWE-122

CVE-2025-10997

Medium · published September 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00286 · 20.1th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer; CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2025-09-26T07:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
openbabel/open_babel≤ 3.1.1—
References (5)
https://github.com/openbabel/openbabel/issues/2830 · [email protected]https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22318543/poc.zip · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.325925 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?id.325925 · [email protected]https://vuldb.com/?submit.654062 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 02:32Z
    Open Babel chemkinformat.cpp CheckSpecies heap-based overflow
    cvelistv5