⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2024-01-02. Federal agencies required to patch by 2024-01-23. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2023-7101Eval Injection in Spreadsheet

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
83.3%
top 0.73%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2024-01-02
Due 2024-01-23
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
KEV addedJan 2
KEV dueJan 23
Latest updateMay 21
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 38, 39

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-3c85-mx4x-435c: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 02023-12-25
CVEList
Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) Vulnerability2023-12-24
OSV
CVE-2023-7101: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 02023-12-24
VulnCheck
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2023

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel vulnerability2024-05-21
CISA
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2024-01-02
Debian
CVE-2023-7101: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65 is a Perl module used for parsing Excel fil...2023

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Bleepingcomputer
CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library2024-01-03
Bleepingcomputer
Barracuda fixes new ESG zero-day exploited by Chinese hackers2023-12-27
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