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CVE-2026-40863

PhpSpreadsheet: CPU Denial of Service via Unbounded Row Index in SpreadsheetML XML Reader PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 SpreadsheetML XML reader (Reader\Xml) does not validate the ss:Index row attribute against the maximum allowed row count (AddressRange::MAX_ROW = 1,048,576). An attacker can craft a SpreadsheetML XML file with ss:Index="999999999" on a <Row> element, which inflates the internal cachedHighestRow to ~1 billion. Any subsequent call to getRowIterator() without an explicit end row will attempt to iterate ~1 billion rows, causing CPU exhaustion and denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.30.4, 2.1.16, 2.4.5, 3.10.5, and 5.7.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
PHPOffice / PhpSpreadsheetaffected < 1.30.4; affected >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.16; affected >= 2.2.0, < 2.4.5; affected >= 3.3.0, < 3.10.5; affected >= 4.0.0, < 5.7.0

CWE

CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.