GHSA-3x9f-74h4-2fqr

Denial of Service in SheetJS Pro

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2021-32012

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	xlsx	< 0.17.0	0.17.0
Maven	org.webjars.npm:xlsx	< 0.17.0	0.17.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

SheetJS Pro through 0.16.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted .xlsx document that is mishandled when read by xlsx.js (issue 1 of 2).

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32012 advisory
https://floqast.com/engineering-blog/post/fuzzing-and-parsing-securely web
https://sheetjs.com/pro web
https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlsx/v/0.17.0 web
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html web