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CVE-2022-23640

monitorjbl excel-streaming-reader — Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Excel-Streaming-Reader

EPSS 1%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
43
CVSS 9.8 (NVD, CNA agree)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 69.9.699 × 2014.0No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

Excel-Streaming-Reader is an easy-to-use implementation of a streaming Excel reader using Apache POI. Prior to xlsx-streamer 2.1.0, the XML parser that was used did apply all the necessary settings to prevent XML Entity Expansion issues. Upgrade to version 2.1.0 to receive a patch. There is no known workaround.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
excel-streaming-reader< 2.1.0–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/monitorjbl/excel-streaming-reader/security/advisories/GHSA-xvm2-9xvc-hx7frefgithub.com/monitorjbl/excel-streaming-reader/commit/0749c7b9709db078ccdeada16d46a34bc2910c73