CVE-2017-2391

medium

Published 2017-04-02 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Pages before 6.1, Numbers before 4.1, and Keynote before 7.1 on macOS and Pages before 3.1, Numbers before 3.1, and Keynote before 3.1 on iOS are affected. The issue involves the "Export" component. It allows users to bypass iWork PDF password protection by leveraging use of 40-bit RC4.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
apple	keynote	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.5"}`
apple	numbers	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.5"}`
apple	pages	`{"endIncluding":"6.0.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-326

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.