Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel package, versions <0.66-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
14.18% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-PERLSPREADSHEETPARSEEXCEL-8488477
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed24 Dec 2023

Introduced: 24 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-7101  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel to version 0.66-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel package and not the perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65 is a Perl module used for parsing Excel files. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution (ACE) 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 (not to be confused with printf-style format strings) within the Excel parsing logic.

CVSS Scores

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