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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2017-7089 json

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products.

published 2017-10-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16127

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. Safari before 11 is affected. iCloud before 7.0 on Windows is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via a crafted web site that is mishandled during parent-tab processing.

Patch / fix

  • webkit2gtk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.18.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7089

  • webkit2gtk Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.18.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7089

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

  • webkit2gtk3 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 2.18.5-2.18.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0219-1

  • gtk3 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.32.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11506-1

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-45866)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

6.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-45866 Webkit (Safari) - Universal Cross-site Scripting local, 2017-10-03

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

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.