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🛡️ OESA-2025-2507 — perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel (CVE-2023-7101)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel security update

The Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module can be used to read information from an Excel 95-2003 file.

Security Fix(es):

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65, a Perl module for parsing Excel files, is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution (ACE) due to passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type eval. The issue specifically arises from the evaluation of Number format strings (distinct from printf-style format strings) within the Excel parsing logic.(CVE-2023-7101)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

OESA-2025-2507 is recorded against 1 package.

  • perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel (fixed in 0.65-2.oe2403)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 October 2025 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
perl-spreadsheet-parseexcel — 0.65-2.oe2403

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