CVE-2017-9873 — IrfanView version 4.44 (32bit) with FPX Plugin 4.46 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .fpx file, related to a "Read Access Violation on Control Flow starting at FPX!GetPlugInInfo+0x0000000000012bf2."

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HIGH

IrfanView version 4.44 (32bit) with FPX Plugin 4.46 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .fpx file, related to a "Read Access Violation on Control Flow starting at FPX!GetPlugInInfo+0x0000000000012bf2."

Published Jul 5, 2017

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.26%

Description

IrfanView version 4.44 (32bit) with FPX Plugin 4.46 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .fpx file, related to a "Read Access Violation on Control Flow starting at FPX!GetPlugInInfo+0x0000000000012bf2."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.26% 0.01265

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01265

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.26% (0.01265)	68.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.33% (0.01330)	67.26th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.34% (0.00344)	54.83th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00092)	41.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 6, 2024	0.09% (0.00092)	38.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.08% (0.00085)	34.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.10% (0.01102)	53.65th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.00% (0.01005)	17.93th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	1.36% (0.01362)	31.45th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	1.36% (0.01362)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (2)

http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-9873
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-9873		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 5, 2017

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Jun 25, 2017

Link CVE-2017-9873

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-9873

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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