CVE-2024-22368
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Jan 9, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 9, 2024
Description
The Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX package before 0.28 for Perl can encounter an out-of-memory condition during parsing of a crafted XLSX document. This occurs because the memoize implementation does not have appropriate constraints on merged cells.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://github.com/haile01/perl_spreadsheet_excel_rce_poc/blob/main/parse_xlsx_bomb.md
- https://metacpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX/changes
- [oss-security] 20240110 CVE-2024-22368: Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX for Perl is vulnerable to DoS via out-of-memory bugsmailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20240127 [SECURITY] [DLA 3723-1] libspreadsheet-parsexlsx-perl security updatemailing-list
- FEDORA-2024-5f136f5d10vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2024-fa14bfd3b5vendor-advisory
- https://security.metacpan.org/2024/02/10/vulnerable-spreadsheet-parsing-modules.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6R7NYWVVZYDZIQC5YEXNHZM6VEE26SJV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WNJVC4C5C5V44DNOZ5BHVU53CDXPB2OJ/
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