Summary
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type “eval”. Specifically, the issue stems from the evaluation of Number format strings within the Excel parsing logic.
- Vendor
- Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
- Product
- Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
- Added to KEV
- Jan 2, 2024
- Remediation due
- Jan 23, 2024 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-95
- EPSS
- 19.0% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References