SCA: security update for github.com/xuri/excelize, github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 (GHSA-fx5j-qcqg-grpf)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 447905

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2026-59162)

Solution

Update the github.com/xuri/excelize/v2 library and its related packages to version 2.11.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fx5j-qcqg-grpf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 447905

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/10/2026

Updated: 9/10/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.08

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59162

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59162