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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-2446 json

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.

published 2017-04-02 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11629

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3 is affected. Safari before 10.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.2 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that leverages the mishandling of strict mode functions.

Patch / fix

  • webkit2gtk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.14.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2446

  • webkit2gtk Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.16.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2446

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-41742)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

8.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-41742 Apple Safari - Builtin JavaScript Allows Function.caller to be Used in Strict Mode dos, 2017-03-27
  • EDB-41741 Apple Safari - 'DateTimeFormat.format' Type Confusion dos, 2017-03-27

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.