CVE-2026-54063CWE-770

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

High · published July 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00607 · 48.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-07-10T15:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 15:53Z
    Excelize: Unbounded Row Index Allocation in Worksheet Parser (checkSheet OOM/Panic DoS)
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