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SCA: security update for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet (GHSA-r8w8-74ww-j4wh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418609

Description

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

 - PHPSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files.
 `\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html` does not sanitize "javascript:" URLs from hyperlink `href`
 attributes, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. This issue has been addressed in release
 versions 1.29.2, 2.1.1, and 2.3.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for
 this vulnerability. (CVE-2024-45292)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r8w8-74ww-j4wh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 418609

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/30/2026

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-2024-45292

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:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45292

cwe: CWE-79