# CVE-2026-107217: Excelize ColumnNameToNumber: int64 overflow yields an out-of-domain coordinate with nil error, causing negative slice index panic on r="0" rows

- Also known as: GHSA-C85P-XXJJ-2R75
- 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: 2.11.1-0.20260910071107-696050fbf14e
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- qax-os excelize: from 2.0.0, through 2.11.0; from 1.1.0, through 1.4.1
- github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (Go): from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260910071107-696050fbf14e
- github.com/xuri/excelize (Go): from 1.1.0, through 1.4.1

## Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.0.0 to 2.11.0 in github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 and from 1.1.0 to 1.4.1 in github.com/xuri/excelize, ColumnNameToNumber accumulates a bijective base-26 value in int64 without detecting overflow, allowing an invalid long column name to wrap to zero with no error. ColumnNameToNumber accepts the overflowing name VGWQHXLSDVIKWV, after which checkSheetR0 and xlsxWorksheet.checkRow use the wrapped column value as an index. When a crafted worksheet uses an overflowing column name in a row normalized by checkSheetR0 or checkRow, the wrapped zero column becomes a negative slice index during worksheet normalization, allowing an attacker to panic and terminate the calling process. 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/xuri/excelize, upgrade to a fixed version (2.11.1-0.20260910071107-696050fbf14e) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-c85p-xxjj-2r75
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2394
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/696050fbf14e74e96a58eef2b16aaf72f381a6a8

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