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Excelize: Negative shared-string index causes panic in GetCellValue and GetRows

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, Excelize parses shared-string cell values with strconv.Atoi and checks only the upper bound before indexing the shared string slice, allowing an XLSX file containing a shared-string cell with -1 to trigger sharedStrings[-1] and panic when read through GetCellValue or GetRows. This issue is fixed in version 2.11.0.

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CVEs
CVE-2026-59162
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2 Nov 2026, 22:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Excelize: Negative shared-string index causes panic in GetCellValue and GetRows

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jul 2026, 15:51 UTC

Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, Excelize parses shared-string cell values with strconv.Atoi and checks only the upper bound before indexing the shared string slice, allowing an XLSX file containing a shared-string cell with -1 to trigger sharedStrings[-1] and panic when read through GetCellValue or GetRows. This issue is fixed in version 2.11.0.

osv:CVE-2026-59162
Complete source record
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