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SCA: security update for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet (GHSA-q9jv-mm3r-j47r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418021

Description

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

 - PhpSpreadsheet is a PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Versions prior to 3.7.0, 2.3.5,
 2.1.6, and 1.29.7 are vulnerable to bypass of the cross-site scripting sanitizer using the javascript
 protocol and special characters. An attacker can use special characters, so that the library processes the
 javascript protocol with special characters and generates an HTML link. Versions 3.7.0, 2.3.5, 2.1.6, and
 1.29.7 contain a patch for the issue. (CVE-2024-56412)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q9jv-mm3r-j47r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418021

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56412

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-56412

cwe: CWE-79