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Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Dec 24, 2023· Updated Oct 21, 2025

Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) Vulnerability

CVE-2023-7101

Description

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.

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