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SCA: security update for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet (GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410293

Description

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

 - This affects the package phpoffice/phpspreadsheet from 0.0.0. The library is vulnerable to XSS when
 creating an html output from an excel file by adding a comment on any cell. The root cause of this issue
 is within the HTML writer where user comments are concatenated as part of link and this is returned as
 HTML. A fix for this issue is available on commit 0ed5b800be2136bcb8fa9c1bdf59abc957a98845/master branch.
 (CVE-2020-7776)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4mqv-gcr3-pff9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 410293

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7776

cwe: CWE-79