GHSA-pw67-xjhq-389w

Pycel allows code injection via a crafted formula

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-53924

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	pycel	<= 1.0b30	no fix listed

Details

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

Pycel through 1.0b30, when operating on an untrusted spreadsheet, allows code execution via a crafted formula in a cell, such as one beginning with the `=IF(A1=200, eval("__import__('os').system(` substring.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53924 advisory
https://gist.github.com/aelmosalamy/cb098e61939718d2bb248fd1cc94f287 web
https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pycel/PYSEC-2025-177.yaml web
https://github.com/stephenrauch/pycel package
https://pypi.org/project/pycel web