CVE-2022-23640

Excel-Streaming-Reader is an easy-to-use implementation of a streaming Excel reader using Apache POI. Prior to xlsx-streamer 2.1.0, the XML parser that was used did apply all the necessary settings to prevent XML Entity Expansion issues. Upgrade to version 2.1.0 to receive a patch. There is no known workaround.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2022-03-02

Last modified

2025-04-23

Weaknesses

CWE-611, CWE-776

Affected products

• Excel Streaming Reader (Excel Streaming Reader Project)
• Excel-streaming-reader (Monitorjbl)

References

• https://github.com/monitorjbl/excel-streaming-reader/commit/0749c7b9709db078ccdeada16d46a34bc2910c73
• https://github.com/monitorjbl/excel-streaming-reader/security/advisories/GHSA-xvm2-9xvc-hx7f