# CVE-2026-107223: Excelize: Unbounded \<col max\> attribute is loaded with no MaxColumns check and expanded per-column by flatCols(), so any column mutator hangs or OOMs the process

- Also known as: GHSA-FQ3V-74GV-27GM
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.1-0.20260807015645-a54c578af309
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- qax-os excelize: from 2.1.0, through 2.11.0
- github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (Go): from 2.1.0, fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260807015645-a54c578af309

## Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.1.0 to 2.11.0, flatCols expands file-loaded column ranges without validating Min and Max against the worksheet column limit. SetColWidth reaches flatCols, which expands xlsxCol.Min through xlsxCol.Max without enforcing MaxColumns. When a crafted worksheet supplies an oversized col max attribute and the application invokes a column mutator, flatCols performs a deep copy and append for every attacker-selected column number, allowing an attacker to consume excessive CPU and memory or trigger OOM. 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 (2.11.1-0.20260807015645-a54c578af309) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/security/advisories/GHSA-fq3v-74gv-27gm
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/pull/2370
- https://github.com/qax-os/excelize/commit/a54c578af309fa81f448143ed2b7a91192cc58a7

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