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XML injection (XXE) In phpoffice/phpexcel

Description

XXE in PHPSpreadsheet due to encoding issue securityScan() in PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet through 1.5.0 allows a bypass of protection mechanisms for XXE via UTF-7 encoding in a .xlsx file

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2018-192772. NVD-2018-192773. OSV-2018-192774. GCVE-2018-192775. drupal.org

References

1. https://github.com/MewesK/TwigSpreadsheetBundle/issues/182. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/7713. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/7804. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel/commit/2b601574975acfb9d4378a788ed5f2b7479580955. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/commit/0f8f071e24ee8b114d894ac172f77dc250e5bfa46. https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet/CVE-2018-19277.yaml7. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel/commits/1.8.28. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/releases/tag/1.5.19. https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/11/phpoffice-versions

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