CVE-2024-47873: XmlScanner bypass leads to XXE
(updated )
The XmlScanner class has a scan method which should prevent XXE attacks.
However, the regexes used in the scan method and the findCharSet method can be bypassed by using UCS-4 and encoding guessing as described in https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing-no-ext-info.
References
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/39fc51309181e82593b06e2fa8e45ef8333a0335/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.php
- github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-jw4x-v69f-hh5w
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-jw4x-v69f-hh5w
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47873
- owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing
- www.w3.org/TR/xml/
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