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SCA: security update for phpoffice/phpexcel (GHSA-28rm-rj57-qjpv)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432774

Description

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

 - PHPExcel before 1.8.0, as used in ownCloud Server before 5.0.15 and 6.0.x before 6.0.2, does not disable
 external entity loading in libxml, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial
 of service, or possibly have other impact via an XML External Entity (XXE) attack. (CVE-2014-2054)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-28rm-rj57-qjpv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432774

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2054

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2054

BID: 66172

cwe: CWE-611