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SCA: security update for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet (GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423128

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2019-12331)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vvwv-h69m-wg6f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423128

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12331

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12331

cwe: CWE-611