CVE-2019-17249 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting IrfanView 4.53, specifically a User Mode Write AV within the WSQ!ReadWSQ function. This local vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no prerequisites (PR:N), allowing an attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, indicating no active exploitation. Community discussion and media coverage are also minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:irfanview:irfanview:4.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.