CVE-2019-12331: XXE in PHPSpreadsheet due to incomplete fix for previous encoding issue
(updated )
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.
References
- github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet/CVE-2019-12331.yaml
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/0e6238c69e863b58aeece61e48ea032696c6dccd
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/1041
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/releases/tag/1.8.0
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f
- herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2019-0046
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12331
Code Behaviors & Features
Detect and mitigate CVE-2019-12331 with GitLab Dependency Scanning
Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Learn more about Dependency Scanning →