CVE-2017-14946 describes a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Artifex GSView 6.0 Beta on Windows, where a crafted PDF file can lead to system instability or potentially other unspecified impacts. The attack requires local access and user interaction (e.g., opening the malicious PDF), but has low attack complexity. While the CVSS score is 7.8, indicating significant potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:gsview:6.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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