CVE-2017-9890 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting IrfanView 4.44 (32bit) with the FPX Plugin 4.46, where a crafted .fpx file can lead to a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts due to a read access violation. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.8, indicating a high risk, and can be exploited locally with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. While the potential impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation. No public exploit code exists on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irfanview:irfanview:4.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.46CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irfanview:fpx:4.46:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.