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Medium · 4.0 CVE-2020-5299 EUVD-2020-0458GHSA-4rhm-m2fp-hx7q

Potential CSV Injection vector in OctoberCMS

Published Jun 3, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

In OctoberCMS (october/october composer package) versions from 1.0.319 and before 1.0.466, any users with the ability to modify any data that could eventually be exported as a CSV file from the `ImportExportController` could potentially introduce a CSV injection into the data to cause the generated CSV export file to be malicious. This requires attackers to achieve the following before a successful attack can be completed: 1. Have found a vulnerability in the victims spreadsheet software of choice. 2. Control data that would potentially be exported through the `ImportExportController` by a theoretical victim. 3. Convince the victim to export above data as a CSV and run it in vulnerable spreadsheet software while also bypassing any sanity checks by said software. Issue has been patched in Build 466 (v1.0.466).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
octobercms october >= 1.0.319, < 1.0.466 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist october/backend >= 1.0.319, < 1.0.466 1.0.466 GHSA-4rhm-m2fp-hx7q

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