CVE-2026-54063

HIGH

Excelize: Unbounded Row Index Allocation in Worksheet Parser (checkSheet OOM/Panic DoS)

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, the checkSheet() function in github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 uses an attacker-controlled <row r="N"> XML attribute value directly as the length argument to make([]xlsxRow, row) without validating it against the Excel row limit (TotalRows = 1,048,576). A specially crafted XLSX file can trigger two denial-of-service variants: (A) an out-of-memory process kill when r=2147483647 forces a ~16 GB allocation attempt, and (B) a runtime panic via out-of-bounds slice indexing when r=-1. Any service that opens attacker-supplied XLSX files and calls GetCellValue is affected. No authentication is required. This issue is fixed in version 2.11.0.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 31.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (3)
excelize/excelize < 2.11.0
qax-os/excelize < 2.11.0
xuri/excelize 0 - 2.11.0Go
Published Jul 10, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 10, 2026