CVE-2026-59161

Excelize: Streaming GetRows row-bound bypass causes attacker-controlled allocation

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.

Affected

qax-os · excelize

CVSS v4.0 GITHUB

8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CVSS v4.0 GitHub

8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 50th percentile

Published

2026-07-10

Updated

2026-07-14

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc

Security advisories

• qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-q5j5-6p94-4gwc
• qax-os/excelize/pull/2331

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry