Description
PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet before 1.8.0 has an XXE issue. The XmlScanner decodes the sheet1.xml from an .xlsx to utf-8 if something else than UTF-8 is declared in the header. This was a security measurement to prevent CVE-2018-19277 but the fix is not sufficient. By double-encoding the the xml payload to utf-7 it is possible to bypass the check for the string ‚<!ENTITY‘ and thus allowing for an xml external entity processing (XXE) attack.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | phpoffice/phpexcel | <= 1.8.2 | — | GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f |
| Packagist | phpoffice/phpspreadsheet | < 1.8.0 | 1.8.0 | GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f |