CVE-2026-59162: Excelize: Negative shared-string index causes panic in GetCellValue and GetRows
Excelize parses shared-string cell values with strconv.Atoi and checks only the upper bound before indexing the shared string slice. If an XLSX file contains a shared-string cell with <v>-1</v>, the parsed index is negative. The upper-bound check still passes (len(sharedStrings) > -1), and Excelize indexes sharedStrings[-1], causing a runtime panic.
This was reproduced on the current default branch commit 1213a8bd7c5ab360554603ac5c995ccaf6eb4314 and the latest release tag v2.10.1 (5ad5ab3af0054c55bdce09f1530085600e9f2e45). The issue is independent from the row-bound allocation report, so I am reporting it separately.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-fx5j-qcqg-grpf
- github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/93f0b3caed37f21ef5079e3259c6c21dcfe68453
- github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2331
- github.com/qax-os/excelize/releases/tag/v2.11.0
- github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-fx5j-qcqg-grpf
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59162
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