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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-40902 EUVD-2026-29852GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m

PhpSpreadsheet: CPU Denial of Service via Unbounded Row Number in XLSX Row Dimensions

Published May 12, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Prior to 1.30.4, 2.1.16, 2.4.5, 3.10.5, and 5.7.0, the XLSX reader's ColumnAndRowAttributes::readRowAttributes() method reads row numbers from XML attributes without validating them against the spreadsheet maximum row limit (AddressRange::MAX_ROW = 1,048,576). An attacker can craft a minimal XLSX file (~1.6KB) containing a <row r="999999999"/> element that inflates cachedHighestRow to 999,999,999, causing any subsequent row iteration to attempt ~1 billion loop cycles and exhaust CPU resources. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.30.4, 2.1.16, 2.4.5, 3.10.5, and 5.7.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
PHPOffice PhpSpreadsheet < 1.30.4, >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.16, >= 2.2.0, < 2.4.5, >= 3.3.0, < 3.10.5, >= 4.0.0, < 5.7.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet >= 4.0.0, < 5.7.0 5.7.0 GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet >= 3.3.0, < 3.10.5 3.10.5 GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet >= 2.2.0, < 2.4.5 2.4.5 GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.16 2.1.16 GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m
Packagist phpoffice/phpspreadsheet < 1.30.4 1.30.4 GHSA-7c6m-4442-2x6m

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