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CVE-2017-14540

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CVE-2017-14540 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IrfanView 4.44 (32-bit version), triggered by a specially crafted .svg file. This high-severity flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability could cause a denial of service, unspecified other impacts are also possible. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.44CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:irfanview:irfanview:4.44:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-14540
Third Party Advisory
irfanview.net / main_history.htm