CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-97222

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this to crash Gnumeric, potentially leading to denial of service or possibly code execution.

Recommendation

Upgrade Gnumeric to the latest version that fixes this issue and avoid opening untrusted files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS