CVE-2023-7101
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65 is a Perl module used for parsing Excel files. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerability due to passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type “eval”. Specifically, the issue stems from the evaluation of Number format strings (not to be confused with printf-style format strings) within the Excel parsing logic.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 83.31%
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited vulnerability
- CWE
- CWE-95
- Published
- 2023-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-09-16
Affected products
- Douglas Wilson Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Weakness type
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