CVE-2017-2896

2017-11-2022:00:00

talos

www.cve.org

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

8.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.014

Percentile

86.4%

JSON

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the xls_mergedCells function of libxls 1.4. . A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "libxls",
    "vendor": "libxls",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.4"
      }
    ]
  }
]