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Alpine: multiple perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel packages: security update to 0.66-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408216

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65 is a Perl module used for parsing Excel files.
 Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerability due to passing
 unvalidated input from a file into a string-type “eval”. Specifically, the issue stems from the evaluation
 of Number format strings (not to be confused with printf-style format strings) within the Excel parsing
 logic. (CVE-2023-7101)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-7101

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 408216

Version: Revision 1.14

Type: Local

Published: 1/3/2024

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.07

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-7101

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 1/23/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Barracuda ESG Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Arbitrary Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-7101