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by Terr_ 54 days ago
Exfiltration is merely one of the issues.

The other is that an attacker can sneak something in that arbitrarily rewrites your spreadsheet. Triggers could be on content, or on a pre-planned attack time across many instances. Impacts could be subtly-flawed conclusions, or coarser "it stopped working and the deadline is looming" sabotage.

"Yeah boss, I sent out the checks to every vendor listed in the spreadsheet, what's wrong?"

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The potential issues are innumerable, which is why this breathless "vulnerability" report is pointless.

It's like someone writing a threat report on a car about an individual crash. Did you know cars can cause damage if you're not careful using them?