# CVE-2026-107218: Excelize: RIGHT() on supplementary-plane text slices with a negative index and panics

- Also known as: GHSA-8JJQ-8J9W-M2V6
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.1-0.20260908032718-ecd99d761fe0
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- qax-os excelize: from 2.10.1, through 2.11.0
- github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (Go): from 2.10.1, fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260908032718-ecd99d761fe0

## Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.10.1 to 2.11.0, RIGHT validates the requested length with UTF-16 code-unit counts but slices a rune array using Unicode code-point counts. RIGHT reaches leftRight through CalcCellValue, where countUTF16String validates one unit but utf8.RuneCountInString supplies the slice index in another. When RIGHT evaluates supplementary-plane text with a requested character count between the rune count and UTF-16 code-unit count, the inconsistent units produce a negative rune-slice index, allowing an attacker to panic during formula evaluation. 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, upgrade to a fixed version (2.11.1-0.20260908032718-ecd99d761fe0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-8jjq-8j9w-m2v6
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2390
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/ecd99d761fe0489f1ed308e2f7dc2e0502d1a396

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