CVE-2023-48709 iTop vulnerable to potential formula injection in Excel/CSV export file
Attackers can inject malicious formulas into CSV/Excel exports, leading to remote code execution when victims open the files in Excel.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-48709?
CVE-2023-48709 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Combodo Itop, published on 15 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
iTop is an IT service management platform. When exporting data from backoffice or portal in CSV or Excel files, users' inputs may include malicious formulas that may be imported into Excel. As Excel 2016 does **not** prevent Remote Code Execution by default, uninformed users may become victims. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.9, 3.0.4, 3.1.1, and 3.2.0.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-48709?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Combodo Itop.
How do I fix CVE-2023-48709?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-48709 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2023-48709 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-48709 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Combodo Itop
- CVE-2023-48710 iTop limit pages/exec.php script to PHP files
- CVE-2022-39214 Authenticated users of Combodo iTop can take over any account
- CVE-2021-41161 XSS in csvimport in 3.0.0-beta versions
- CVE-2021-41162 Cross-site Scripting in Combodo iTop
- CVE-2025-47773 Combodo iTop has XSS vulnerability in /pages/ajax.render.php
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9q3x-9987-53x9.