VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2024· Updated Nov 18, 2024

XXE in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX reader

CVE-2024-48917

Description

PhpSpreadsheet is a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. The XmlScanner class has a scan method which should prevent XXE attacks. However, in a bypass of the previously reported CVE-2024-47873, the regexes from the findCharSet method, which is used for determining the current encoding can be bypassed by using a payload in the encoding UTF-7, and adding at end of the file a comment with the value encoding="UTF-8" with ", which is matched by the first regex, so that encoding='UTF-7' with single quotes ' in the XML header is not matched by the second regex. An attacker can bypass the sanitizer and achieve an XML external entity attack. Versions 1.9.4, 2.1.3, 2.3.2, and 3.4.0 fix the issue.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
phpoffice/phpspreadsheetPackagist
< 1.29.41.29.4
phpoffice/phpspreadsheetPackagist
>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.32.1.3
phpoffice/phpspreadsheetPackagist
>= 2.2.0, < 2.3.22.3.2
phpoffice/phpspreadsheetPackagist
>= 3.3.0, < 3.4.03.4.0
phpoffice/phpexcelPackagist
<= 1.8.2

Affected products

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Patches

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