CVE-2024-53924

high-risk

Published 2025-04-17

Pycel through 1.0b30, when operating on an untrusted spreadsheet, allows code execution via a crafted formula in a cell, such as one beginning with the =IF(A1=200, eval("__import__('os').system( substring.

Do I need to act?

1.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Pycel

Affected Vendors

Dgorissen

References (5)

Exploit https://gist.github.com/aelmosalamy/cb098e61939718d2bb248fd1cc94f287

Product https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel

Product https://github.com/stephenrauch/pycel

Product https://pypi.org/project/pycel/

Exploit https://gist.github.com/aelmosalamy/cb098e61939718d2bb248fd1cc94f287

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high-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal

Exposure 21/34 · High