Resource exhaustion in Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - CVE-2024-22368
Published: March 6, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU87169
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22368
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing XLSX documents. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX
Ubuntu
Fedora
libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl (Ubuntu package)
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX
Ubuntu
Fedora
libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl (Ubuntu package)
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX
How to mitigate CVE-2024-22368
Install updates from vendor's website.
Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX - update to 0.28
libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.27-2+deb10u1build0.20.04.1, 0.27-2.1+deb11u2build0.22.04.1, 0.27-3+deb12u2build0.23.10.1
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX - addressed in versions 0.31-1.fc38, 0.31-1.fc39
libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.27-2+deb10u1build0.20.04.1, 0.27-2.1+deb11u2build0.22.04.1, 0.27-3+deb12u2build0.23.10.1
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX - addressed in versions 0.31-1.fc38, 0.31-1.fc39