Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2024-48917

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-48917 is a high-severity XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability affecting PhpSpreadsheet, a PHP library for handling spreadsheet files. This flaw allows attackers to bypass previous security fixes by crafting a malicious XML payload using UTF-7 encoding, leading to potential information disclosure. With a CVSS score of 7.5, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting a low immediate threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.29.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpoffice:phpspreadsheet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpoffice:phpspreadsheet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.2.0, < 2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpoffice:phpspreadsheet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.3.0, < 3.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpoffice:phpspreadsheet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 26th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpoffice/phpspreadsheetFixed in: 1.29.4
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpoffice/phpspreadsheetFixed in: 2.1.3
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpoffice/phpspreadsheetFixed in: 2.3.2
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: phpoffice/phpspreadsheetFixed in: 3.4.0
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-7cc9-j4mv-vcjphigh

XXE in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX reader

Nov 18, 2024

References

github.com / PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/blob/39fc51309181e82593b06e2fa8e45ef8333a0335/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.php
Product
github.com / PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-7cc9-j4mv-vcjp
ExploitVendor Advisory
owasp.org / www-community/vulnerabilities/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing
Not Applicable