What is CVE-2017-6078?

CVE-2017-6078 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faststone Maxview, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-21.

How severe is CVE-2017-6078?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Faststone Maxview

CVE-2017-6078

FastStone MaxView 3.0 and 3.1 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed BMP image with a crafted biSize field in the BITMAPINFOHEADER section.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2017-02-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Faststone Maxview — versions 3.0, 3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

github.com/ilsani/rd/tree/master/security-advisories/faststone/maxview-cve-2017… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6078?: CVE-2017-6078 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faststone Maxview, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-21.
How severe is CVE-2017-6078?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.