| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| phpoffice/phpexcel | ≤ 1.8.2 | |
| phpoffice/phpspreadsheet | < 1.8.0 | 1.8.0 |
| phpspreadsheet | < 1.8.0 | 1.8.0 |
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.
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