XML External Entity (XXE)

PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet is vulnerable to XXE. The fix to prevent CVE-2018-19277 was not sufficient to protect against the previous vulnerability. An attacker is able to bypass the mitigation by double-encoding the the XML payload into utf-7 and bypass the check for the string ?!ENTITY?...

CVE-2019-12331

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...

CVE-2019-12331

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...

CVE-2019-12331

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...

PhpSpreadsheet 1.5.0 XXE vulnerability reproduction and analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x01 introduction PhpSpreadsheet is a very popular pure PHP class library that allows you to easily read and write Excel, LibreOffic Calc and other spreadsheet file formats, is PHPExcel alternative. 2018 11 October 13, PhpSpreadsheet was broke presence of the XXE vulnerability, CVE-2018-19277, in...