CVE-2026-97222

medium

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.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/-/issues/897

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-87095

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541397

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97222

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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