Vulnerability in Irfanview

CVE-1999-1112

Buffer overflow in IrfanView32 3.07 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long string after the "8BPS" image type in a Photo Shop image header.

Published 1999-11-09 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.038 (89.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Irfanview

References

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/34066 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3549 (vdb-entry)
stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/main2.html (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/781 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)