CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27819

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-02-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-02-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in libxls before and including 1.6.1 when reading Microsoft Excel files. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists when parsing XLS cells in libxls/xls2csv.c:199. It could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted XLS file.

Affected configurations

• libxls project libxls (< 1.6.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References