Absolute Path Traversal Affecting phpoffice/phpspreadsheet package, versions <1.29.2 >=2.0.0, <2.1.1 >=2.2.0, <2.3.0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-PHPOFFICEPHPSPREADSHEET-8163659
- published 8 Oct 2024
- disclosed 7 Oct 2024
- credit Emil Virkki
Introduced: 7 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-45290 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade phpoffice/phpspreadsheet to version 1.29.2, 2.1.1, 2.3.0 or higher.
Overview
phpoffice/phpspreadsheet is a Spreadsheet engine that Read, Create and Write Spreadsheet documents in PHP .
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Absolute Path Traversal via the setPath method. An attacker can access or leak sensitive information by constructing a malicious XLSX file that manipulates the path to external or internal resources, exploiting the file reading mechanism to extract data. The attack vector evidenced relies on the use of an error oracle to extract data one character at a time.