🛡️ CVE-2023-7101
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-95 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-95
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-24
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-10-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
fedora — —
spreadsheet\ — 0.65

References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/29/4
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory https://https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7101
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/29/4
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory https://https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7101

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