CVE-2026-97222

MEDIUMCVSS 5.5

Description

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in Gnumeric. When a user opens a crafted Gnumeric workbook containing a malformed SheetObjectComponent element, the XML parser can dereference a freed sheet-object component, causing Gnumeric to crash.

Timeline

Published:September 25th, 2026 2:17 PM

Last modified:September 30th, 2026 7:38 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97222
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541397
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/-/issues/897

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute