vulnerability / NVI-00001996 / Revision 1
Kimai has an XXE Leading to Local File Read
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kimai/kimai
source listedECOSYSTEM: introduced 0; fixed 2.21.0
### Summary Kimai uses PHPSpreadsheet for importing and exporting invoices. Recently, a CVE was identified in PHPSpreadsheet, which could lead to an XXE vulnerability. ### Details Exploitation requires an Administrator account, allowing the upload of an `XLSX` template containing the payload. The vulnerability is triggered by the following code snippet: ```php // https://github.com/kimai/kimai/blob/b1903ba18359be16dd32ea9c40377c486498f082/src/Invoice/Renderer/AbstractSpreadsheetRenderer.php#L41 public function render(InvoiceDocument $document, InvoiceModel $model): Response { $spreadsheet = IOFactory::load($document->getFilename()); $worksheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet(); $entries = $model->getCalculator()->getEntries(); $sheetReplacer = $model->toArray(); $invoiceItemCount = \count($entries); if ($invoiceItemCount > 1) { $this->addTemplateRows($worksheet, $invoiceItemCount); } } ``` The `IOFactory::load` function utilizes `simplexml_load_string`, which has previously been demonstrated to be vulnerable to
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- GHSA-534c-hcr7-67jg ↗
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