# CVE-2026-107215: Excelize: extractPart allocates attacker-controlled, unbounded and negative-sized buffers from CFB directory entries: remote panic / OOM DoS

- Also known as: GHSA-X2Q3-8CJH-766F, GO-2026-6689
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.1-0.20260912113515-5f636f9dcde5
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-10

## Affected

- qax-os excelize: from 2.3.1, through 2.11.0
- github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (Go): from 2.3.1, fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260912113515-5f636f9dcde5
- github.com/360EntSecGroup-Skylar/excelize/v2 (Go): from 2.3.1
- github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260912113515-5f636f9dcde5

## Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.3.1 to 2.11.0, extractPart allocates a byte slice directly from an attacker-controlled CFB directory-entry size before validating the sector chain or size domain. extractPart trusts the CFB directory entry streamSize for EncryptionInfo and EncryptedPackage allocations before validating the stream. When a crafted OLE compound file declares a negative or extremely large EncryptionInfo or EncryptedPackage stream size, the declared size reaches make with a negative length or forces a multi-gigabyte allocation, allowing an attacker to panic or exhaust process memory. No fixed version is available as of this review.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on qax-os excelize, github.com/xuri/excelize/v2, github.com/360EntSecGroup-Skylar/excelize/v2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.11.1-0.20260912113515-5f636f9dcde5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-x2q3-8cjh-766f
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2396
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/5f636f9dcde55911f14290060b017f0cc88cd694

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