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CVE-2023-38852
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libxlsv.1.6.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via a crafted XLS file to the unicode_decode_wcstombs function in xlstool.c:266.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-e74783429c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-8b67e47e43 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JQYGEBDBCOWBRHOW44BSSRADUOZBXHUE/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YHBUPYF2NX34HNAWZ3WYHKWU3KWVQUSV/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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