CVE-2023-38855

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.9%

Medium (6.5) in libxls project libxls. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 get_string function in xlstool.c:395.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2023-08-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libxls_project:libxls

References

https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124
https://github.com/libxls/libxls/issues/124

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