Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting pycel package, versions [0,]
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- published8 May 2025
- disclosed22 Nov 2024
- creditAdham Elmosalamy
Introduced: 22 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-53924 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for pycel.
Overview
pycel is an A library for compiling excel spreadsheets to python code & visualizing them as a graph
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection through the code generation from a crafted formula in an Excel spreadsheet cell. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by inserting a malicious formula that triggers the execution of external commands.
PoC
Example of malicious formula:
=IF(A1=200, eval("__import__('os').system('calc.exe')"), @LINEST(C1:C18,B1:B18))