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CVE-2024-48917: XXE in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX reader

November 18, 2024 (updated March 6, 2025)

The XmlScanner class has a scan method which should prevent XXE attacks. However, we found another bypass than the previously reported CVE-2024-47873, the regexes from the findCharSet method, which is used for determining the current encoding can be bypassed by using a payload in the encoding UTF-7, and adding at end of the file a comment with the value encoding=“UTF-8” with “, which is matched by the first regex, so that encoding=‘UTF-7’ with single quotes ’ in the XML header is not matched by the second regex

References

  • github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet
  • github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/39fc51309181e82593b06e2fa8e45ef8333a0335/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.php
  • github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-7cc9-j4mv-vcjp
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-7cc9-j4mv-vcjp
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48917
  • owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.29.4, all versions starting from 2.0.0 before 2.1.3, all versions starting from 2.2.0 before 2.3.2, all versions starting from 3.3.0 before 3.4.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.29.4
  • 2.1.3
  • 2.3.2
  • 3.4.0

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.29.4, 2.1.3, 2.3.2, 3.4.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Source file

packagist/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet/CVE-2024-48917.yml

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