Pycel allows code injection via a crafted formula

GHSA-pw67-xjhq-389w · CVE-2024-53924 · PYSEC-2025-177

Published Apr 17, 2025 · Modified Jun 8, 2026

Description

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.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53924
WEB https://gist.github.com/aelmosalamy/cb098e61939718d2bb248fd1cc94f287
WEB https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel
WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pycel/PYSEC-2025-177.yaml
PACKAGE https://github.com/stephenrauch/pycel
WEB https://pypi.org/project/pycel

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