Is CVE-2026-78206 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-78206?

CVE-2026-78206 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2026-78206

Description

exceljs-hardened before 5.0.0 decompresses all entries from supplied xlsx archives into memory without limits on entry size, total size, or compression ratio. Attackers can upload highly compressed workbooks that expand to gigabytes in memory, exhausting available resources and causing denial of service.