CVE-2024-48917: high-severity vulnerability in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet
XXE in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX reader
Published
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 47% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
PhpSpreadsheet is a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. The `XmlScanner` class has a scan method which should prevent XXE attacks. However, in a bypass of 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. An attacker can bypass the sanitizer and achieve an XML external entity attack. Versions 1.9.4, 2.1.3, 2.3.2, and 3.4.0 fix the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
PHPOffice · PhpSpreadsheetRelated CVEs — PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-45293HIGHXML External Entity Reference (XXE) in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX readerEPSS 2.8%CVE-2024-45291MEDIUMPath traversal and Server-Side Request Forgery in HTML writer when embedding images is enabled in PHPSpreadsheetEPSS 0.9%CVE-2025-54370HIGHPhpSpreadsheet vulnerable to SSRF when reading and displaying a processed HTML document in the browserEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-34084CRITICALPhpSpreadsheet SSRF and RCE via PHP stream wrappers in IOFactory::loadEPSS 0.8%CVE-2024-47873HIGHPhpSpreadsheet XmlScanner bypass leads to XXEEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-59932HIGHPhpSpreadsheet: Gnumeric reader unbounded gzip expansion causes memory exhaustionEPSS 0.7%
References
https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/39fc51309181e82593b06e2fa8e45ef8333a0335/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.phphttps://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-7cc9-j4mv-vcjphttps://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing