GHSA-g973-978j-2c3p

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    GHSA-g973-978j-2c3p

    Published: 22 Jul 2021Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Denial of Service in SheetJS Pro

    Details: SheetJS Pro through 0.16.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted .xlsx document that is mishandled when read by xlsx.js.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32014, https://floqast.com/engineering-blog/post/fuzzing-and-parsing-securely, https://sheetjs.com/pro, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlsx/v/0.17.0, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xlsx

    Purl: pkg:npm/xlsx

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.17.0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-g973-978j-2c3p | CVE-DB