CVE-2026-97222
Gnumeric: gnumeric: heap use-after-free when opening a malformed workbook
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- fedora
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
ID reserved
By fedora
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedoraCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.12% · top 98% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Workaround: Do not open Gnumeric workbook files from untrusted sources. No application-level mitigation that preserves processing of untrusted workbooks is known.
References (3)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97222 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2541397 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/-/issues/897 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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