Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-23546
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 38.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
IrfanView 4.54 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly other unspecified impacts via a crafted XBM file, related to a "Data from Faulting Address is used as one or more arguments in a subsequent Function Call starting at FORMATS!ReadMosaic+0x0000000000000981.