{"id":"CVE-2026-6040","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-6040","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:26:21.191Z","title":"A heap use-after-free existed when importing the blank-width characters of an ODF number format.","description":"A heap use-after-free existed when importing the blank-width characters of an ODF number format. A position value read from the document was not checked against the length of the format-code string, so a malformed number format could be processed against memory outside that string. In fixed versions the position is bounds-checked before use.","published":"2026-06-15T18:16:37.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T23:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@documentfoundation.org","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-416","CWE-787","CWE-825"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00159,"percentile":0.04995,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve-2026-6040","source":"security@documentfoundation.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6040","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488966","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-6040.json","source":"0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6040","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}