Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl package, versions <0.5800-1ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
18.96% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBSPREADSHEETPARSEEXCELPERL-6142039
  • published22 May 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 Ubuntu:14.04 libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl to version 0.5800-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl package and not the libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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 Base Scores

version 3.1