GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-rxcj-4pj5-74gr Excelize: GetConditionalFormats indexes conditional-formatting rule sub-elements with no length or nil check

MEDIUM Published 2026-10-07 Modified 2026-10-07 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-107222
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/xuri/excelize/v2
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-129, CWE-476
Reviewed
2026-10-07

Affected packages

• Go github.com/xuri/excelize/v2: >= 2.7.0, < 2.11.1-0.20260812075026-be7a16390fa6 → fixed in 2.11.1-0.20260812075026-be7a16390fa6

Description

Summary `GetConditionalFormats` reads sub-elements of a `` straight out of `xl/worksheets/sheetN.xml` and indexes them without checking length, and in one case without checking for nil. Three rule types are affected: `cellIs`, `dataBar` and `colorScale`. A workbook with a rule that is missing a child a real Excel file would always have panics the call. Where it is All three sinks are in `styles.go`, at the same line numbers in v2.11.0 and on master `d552a7e`. All three are reached from `GetConditionalFormats` through `styles.go:3271`. `styles.go:3003`, in `extractCondFmtCellIs`: ```go format.Value = c.Formula[0] ``` The branch above it handles `len(c.Formula) == 2`; this one is the fallback and does not check that there is a formula at all, so a `cellIs` rule with no `` child indexes an empty slice. `styles.go:3132`, in the colorScale extractor: ```go values := len(c.ColorScale.Cfvo) ``` `c.ColorScale` is a `*xlsxColorScale` and is nil when the `` element has no `` child. Lines 3148 and 3153 then index `Cfvo[1]` and `Cfvo[2]` in the three-colour branch with no length check either. `styles.go:3186`, `:3188` and `:3190`, in the dataBar extractor: ```go format.MinType = c.DataBar.Cfvo[0].Type ... format.BarColor = "#" + f.getThemeColor(c.DataBar.Color[0]) ``` The guard here is `c.DataBar != nil`, which says nothing about the length of `Cfvo` or `Color`, so an empty `` element reaches all three. Who the attacker is Anyone who can hand a spreadsheet to a service that opens it and calls `GetConditionalFormats`. No authentication, no user interaction beyond the service doing its normal job, and the file is small. Reproduction Three minimal `.xlsx` files were built, each a real zip with `[Content_Types].xml`, `_rels/.rels`, `xl/workbook.xml`, `xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels` and one worksheet, opened each with the public `excelize.OpenReader` and called `GetConditionalFormats("Sheet1")`. Nothing internal is touched. The worksheet fragment for the `cellIs` case, note there is no `` child: ```xml ``` for `dataBar`: ```xml ``` and for `colorScale`: ```xml ``` Observed against master `d552a7e` on go1.26.5: ```text cellIs panic: runtime error: index out of range [0] with length 0 styles.go:3003 styles.go:1217 styles.go:3271 dataBar panic: runtime error: index out of range [0] with length 0 styles.go:3186 styles.go:1262 styles.go:3271 colorScale panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference styles.go:3132 styles.go:1259 styles.go:3271 ``` One honesty note on impact. These are ordinary Go panics, not fatal errors, so a caller that wraps the call in `recover` survives them. Suggested fix Length-check `c.Formula` before line 3003 and return the rule with an empty value when there is no formula. Nil-check `c.ColorScale` before line 3132 and length-check `ColorScale.Cfvo` before indexing 1 and 2. Length-check `DataBar.Cfvo` and `DataBar.Color` alongside the existing nil check at 3186 to 3190. Skipping the malformed rule rather than erroring would keep `GetConditionalFormats` usable on files that are merely sloppy. Affected versions `github.com/xuri/excelize/v2` up to and including v2.11.0, and master at `d552a7e`. I read the three sinks at tag v2.11.0 and at master and ran the reproducers against master.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-107222 Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References