CVE-2017-5992

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 1.41 % · percentile 73 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2017-02-15
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

Description

Openpyxl 2.4.1 resolves external entities by default, which allows remote attackers to conduct XXE attacks via a crafted .xlsx document.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-611

Advisories

GHSA-chqf-hx79-gxc6 — Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Openpyxl
PYSEC-2017-48 — Openpyxl 2.4.1 resolves external entities by default, which allows remote attackers to conduct XXE attacks via a crafted .xlsx document.

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2017-0081
GCVE · GCVE-0-2017-5992

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-267 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Networks Junos Space · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:python:openpyxl:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD