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CVE-2023-7101
CWE-95
Critical
90.6
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 19.10%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jan 2024
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-95
- CWE-95, CWE-94
- Published
- 24 Dec 2023
- Last modified 24 Oct 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time