5.5

CVE-2026-97222: gnome gnumeric Use After Free

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAwaiting analysis
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-97222DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97222openSUSE-SU-2026:11919-1
Published 25-09-2026Last modified 25-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-97222 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use After Free vulnerability in gnome gnumeric. EPSS estimates a 0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.12%
0%100%
Low · Change unavailable
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 25-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.12%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Change unavailable

Change unavailable

26-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.12%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • gnumericAll versions (No fix recorded)
Gnome1 product
Mageia1 product
  • gnumeric< 1.12.59-4.1.mga10
Opensuse1 product
  • gnumeric&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.12.62+8-1.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • gnumericAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 5 products

References

10 links