CVE-2026-108358
Received
Received - Intake
XML External Entity Injection in PhpSpreadsheet
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-108358, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-22
Last updated on: 2026-10-22
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
Description
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Prior to 1.30.7, 2.1.19, 2.4.8, 3.10.8, and 5.10.0, XmlScanner::scan in src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.php uses a DOCTYPE detection pattern that accounts for NUL-byte interleaving but not ISO-2022 escape sequences in XLSX XML parts. The escape sequences prevent the scanner from matching the declaration, and XML charset normalization then removes the escape bytes before parsing, exposing a valid DOCTYPE and entity definitions. Processing an attacker-controlled XLSX can therefore cause entity-expansion denial of service on supported PHP versions and can permit local file access or SSRF on PHP before 8.0 or when LIBXML_NOENT is enabled. This issue is fixed in versions 1.30.7, 2.1.19, 2.4.8, 3.10.8, and 5.10.0.
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| PHPOffice | PhpSpreadsheet | < 1.30.7 |
| PHPOffice | PhpSpreadsheet | >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.19 |
| PHPOffice | PhpSpreadsheet | >= 2.2.0, < 2.4.8 |
| PHPOffice | PhpSpreadsheet | >= 3.3.0, < 3.10.8 |
| PHPOffice | PhpSpreadsheet | >= 4.0.0, < 5.10.0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-776 | The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities. |
| CWE-611 | The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output. |
