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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-107219 EUVD-2026-94549GHSA-jrfj-fhj2-jjvmGO-2026-6681

Excelize: Unbounded spinCount in agile decryption burns CPU during OpenFile

Published Oct 7, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.3.1 to 2.11.0, agile decryption accepts an attacker-controlled spinCount and performs that many password-key derivation iterations before verifier validation. OpenFile reaches agileDecrypt, which passes the unbounded spinCount to convertPasswdToKey before password verification. When a crafted OLE encrypted-workbook header supplies an excessive spinCount and the file is opened, the key-derivation loop performs unbounded attacker-selected work and cannot be cancelled, allowing an attacker to consume a CPU core for an attacker-controlled duration. No fixed version is available as of this review.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
qax-os excelize >= 2.3.1, <= 2.11.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/360EntSecGroup-Skylar/excelize/v2 >= 2.3.1 — GO-2026-6681
Go github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 >= 2.3.1, < 2.11.1-0.20260906004932-2badfcd5841d 2.11.1-0.20260906004932-2badfcd5841d GHSA-jrfj-fhj2-jjvm
Go github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 < 2.11.1-0.20260906004932-2badfcd5841d 2.11.1-0.20260906004932-2badfcd5841d GO-2026-6681

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