Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, the streaming worksheet reader used by Rows and GetRows does not enforce the TotalRows limit on the row r attribute, allowing a small XLSX file with a row number above 1048576 and no cell coordinate to make GetRows append empty rows up to the attacker-controlled index and consume excessive memory and CPU. This issue is fixed in version 2.11.0.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/93f0b3caed37f21ef5079e3259c6c21dcfe68453 Patch
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2331 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.7 · excelizeNVD modified 2026-10-25 15:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:excelize:excelize:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
References 5
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/93f0b3caed37f21ef5079e3259c6c21dcfe68453 Patch
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2331 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/releases/tag/v2.11.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc Exploit, Vendor Advisory