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High · 8.8 CVE-2019-12331 EUVD-2019-0763GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f

XXE in PHPSpreadsheet due to incomplete fix for previous encoding issue

Published Nov 7, 2019 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist phpoffice/phpexcel <= 1.8.2 — GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet < 1.8.0 1.8.0 GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f

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